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  <title>Be Stars Catalog</title>
  <shortName>Be</shortName>
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    <publisher ivo-id="ivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD">NASA/GSFC HEASARC</publisher>
    <creator>
      <name>Jaschek, Egret</name>
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    <contributor/>
    <date>2026-04-03</date>
    <contact>
      <name>NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk</name>
      <email>heasarc-vo at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov</email>
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  <content>
    <subject>Star</subject>
    <description>
      The BESTARS database tables contains a compilation of data concerning stars of type Be. For the purposes of this compilation, a Be star is defined as a non-supergiant B star which showed emission in one Balmer line at least once. Stars without published MK spectral types have been excluded, except for 132 stars from Bidelman and MacConnell (1973), who used the above definition but included no spectral types. There are 1,159 stars included in this list. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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      1982IAUS...98..261J
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    <maxSR>180</maxSR>
    <maxRecords>99999</maxRecords>
    <verbosity>true</verbosity>
    <testQuery>
      <ra>216.096</ra>
      <dec>-82.848</dec>
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  <facility>STAR CATALOG</facility>
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        <description>
          Be Stars Catalog
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          <description>
            System unit vector column
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          <flag>
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            B-V Quality
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            meta.code.qual;phot.color;em.opt.B;em.opt.V
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            Photographic Magnitude
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            System unit vector column
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            Sexagesimal Declination in J2000
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            nullable
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            Sexagesimal Right Ascension in J2000
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            nullable
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        <column>
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            Photographic Magnitude Flag
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          <flag>
            nullable
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            Flag on HD
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            nullable
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            B-V Color Magnitude in UBV
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            nullable
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            Radial Velocity Quality
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          <flag>
            nullable
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        <column>
          <name>disp</name>
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            Dispersion Code
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            meta.code;instr.dispersion
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          <flag>
            nullable
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          <description>
            Right Ascension in J2000
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            Source of Photographic Magnitude
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            Quality of Photographic Magnitude
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        <column>
          <name>"__row"</name>
          <description>
            System index column
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          <flag>
            nullable
          </flag>
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        <column>
          <name>bd_num</name>
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            Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) Number
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          <description>
            Declination in 1950 Coordinates
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            nullable
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            U-B Quality
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            nullable
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        <column>
          <name>dec</name>
          <description>
            Declination in J2000
          </description>
          <unit>degree</unit>
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            nullable
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          <description>
            Flag Indicates Uncertainty in Photographic Magnitude
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        <column>
          <name>name</name>
          <description>
            Designation in Be Star catalog
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          <ucd>
            meta.id;meta.main
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            nullable
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        <column>
          <name>lii</name>
          <description>
            Galactic Longitude
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          <unit>degree</unit>
          <ucd>
            pos.galactic.lon
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            Flag Indicates Uncertainty in Coordinates
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            System unit vector column
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          <flag>
            nullable
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          <description>
            Galactic Latitude
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          <unit>degree</unit>
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