Long-term Variability in Be-Star disks

Abstract

AbstractBe stars can switch between non-disk, gradual disk growth, disk-loss events, and shell-line phases. Many aspects of this Be phenomenon are still not understood. In this paper I review recent work on variability in Be-star disks, divided in four different topics: disk growth (Section 1), long-term V/R variations and global disk oscillations (Section 2), spectacular variations (Section 3), and, concisely, the disk variability in Be/X-ray binaries (Section 4).