A NEW DIAGNOSTIC OF THE RADIAL DENSITY STRUCTURE OF Be DISKS
A NEW DIAGNOSTIC OF THE RADIAL DENSITY STRUCTURE OF Be DISKS
We analyze the intrinsic polarization of two classical Be stars in the process of losing their circumstellar disks via a Be to normal B star transition originally reported by Wisniewski et al. During each of five polarimetric outbursts which interrupt these disk-loss events, we find that the ratio of the …