Classical Be stars: Rapidly rotating B stars with viscous Keplerian decretion disks

T Rivinius, AC Carciofi, C Martayan - The Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2013 - Springer
In the past decade, a consensus has emerged regarding the nature of classical Be stars:
They are very rapidly rotating main sequence B stars, which, through a still unknown, but …

Monte Carlo radiative transfer

UM Noebauer, SA Sim - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2019 - Springer
The theory and numerical modelling of radiation processes and radiative transfer play a key
role in astrophysics: they provide the link between the physical properties of an object and …

The X-ray through optical fluxes and line strengths of tidal disruption events

N Roth, D Kasen, J Guillochon… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) produced as radiation from black
hole accretion propagates through an extended, optically thick envelope formed from stellar …

HYPERION: an open-source parallelized three-dimensional dust continuum radiative transfer code

TP Robitaille - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2011 - aanda.org
Hyperion is a new three-dimensional dust continuum Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code
that is designed to be as generic as possible, allowing radiative transfer to be computed …

Prevalence of SED turndown among classical Be stars: Are all Be stars close binaries?

R Klement, AC Carciofi, T Rivinius… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapid rotation is a fundamental characteristic of classical Be stars and a crucial property
allowing for the formation of their circumstellar disks. Past evolution in a mass and angular …

Rotation measure variations and reversals of repeating FRBs in massive binary systems

ZY Zhao, GQ Zhang, FY Wang… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent observations discovered that some repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) show
complicated variations and reversals of Faraday rotation measures (RMs), indicating that the …

Accretion vs. colliding wind models for the gamma-ray binary LS I+ 61 303: an assessment

GE Romero, AT Okazaki, M Orellana… - Astronomy & …, 2007 - aanda.org
Context. LS I+ 61 303 is a puzzling Be/X-ray binary with variable gamma-ray emission up to
TeV energies. The nature of the compact object and the origin of the high-energy emission …

Monte Carlo radiative transfer

BA Whitney - Fluid Flows To Black Holes: A Tribute to S …, 2011 - World Scientific
Fluid Flows to Black Holes : Monte Carlo radiative transfer Page 1 Bull. Astr. Soc. India (2011)
Monte Carlo radiative transfer Barbara A. Whitney∗ Astronomy Department, University of …

Cyclic variability of the circumstellar disk of the Be star ζ Tauri-II. Testing the 2D global disk oscillation model

AC Carciofi, AT Okazaki, JB Le Bouquin, S Štefl… - Astronomy & …, 2009 - aanda.org
Context. About 2/3 of the Be stars present the so-called variations, a phenomenon
characterized by the quasi-cyclic variation in the ratio between the violet and red emission …

Dynamical evolution of viscous disks around Be stars. I. Photometry

X Haubois, AC Carciofi, T Rivinius… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Be stars possess gaseous circumstellar disks that modify in many ways the spectrum of the
central B star. Furthermore, they exhibit variability at several timescales and for a large …