Be ivo://nasa.heasarc/bestars NASA/GSFC HEASARC Jaschek, Egret 2026-10-02 NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk heasarc-vo at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov Star 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 . 1982IAUS...98..261J https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/bestars.html Catalog Research served-by HEASARC TAP https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=bestars& GET text/xml 180 99999 true 216.096 -82.848 0.0833333333333333 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/getvotable.pl?name=bestars GET text/xml https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_bestars&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1 STAR CATALOG 0.0833333333333333 Optical public bestars Be Stars Catalog name Designation in Be Star catalog meta.id;meta.main char nullable ra Right Ascension in J2000 degree pos.eq.ra;meta.main double nullable dec Declination in J2000 degree pos.eq.dec;meta.main double nullable vmag Photographic Magnitude phot.mag;em.opt.V float nullable spect_type MK Spectral Type src.spType char nullable class Browse Classification src.class short nullable "__x_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__y_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__z_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__row" System index column char nullable cdec Sexagesimal Declination in J2000 pos.eq.dec char nullable ra_1950 Right Ascension in 1950 Coordinates degree pos.eq.ra double nullable bii Galactic Latitude degree pos.galactic.lat double nullable ub_qual U-B Quality meta.code.qual;phot.color;em.opt.U;em.opt.B char nullable lii Galactic Longitude degree pos.galactic.lon double nullable hd_suff Flag on HD meta.code;src char nullable vmag_qual Quality of Photographic Magnitude meta.code.qual;phot.mag;em.opt.V char nullable ub_color U-B Color Magnitude in UBV phot.mag;em.opt.U float nullable cra Sexagesimal Right Ascension in J2000 pos.eq.ra char nullable bv_color B-V Color Magnitude in UBV phot.color;em.opt.B;em.opt.V float nullable dec_1950 Declination in 1950 Coordinates degree pos.eq.dec double nullable bv_qual B-V Quality meta.code.qual;phot.color;em.opt.B;em.opt.V char nullable vmag_source Source of Photographic Magnitude meta.code;phot.mag;em.opt.V char nullable vmag_flag Photographic Magnitude Flag meta.code;src.var char nullable rad_vel Radial Velocity spect.dopplerVeloc float nullable disp Dispersion Code meta.code;instr.dispersion char nullable rad_vel_qual Radial Velocity Quality meta.code.qual;spect.dopplerVeloc char nullable coord_unc Flag Indicates Uncertainty in Coordinates meta.code;pos char nullable vmag_unc Flag Indicates Uncertainty in Photographic Magnitude meta.code;phot.mag;em.opt.V char nullable hd HD Designation meta.id int nullable bd_num Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) Number meta.id char nullable