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J/A+AS/107/403            Kappa Dra                                (Juza+, 1994)
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Correlated long-term light, colour and spectral variations of the Be star
Kappa Dra
       Juza K., Harmanec P., Bozic H., Pavlovski K.,  Ziznovsky J.
       Tarasov A.E., Horn J., Koubsky P.
      <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 107, 403 (1994)>
      =1994A&AS..107..403J      (SIMBAD/NED Reference)
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, Be; Photometry, UBV; Equivalent widths; Balmer lines
Keywords: stars: emission-line, Be - stars: binaries: spectroscopic -
          stars: variables: other

Abstract:
   Intensity of the Balmer emission lines of {kappa} Dra, documented by 
   spectral records from the past 100 years, was found to vary with a period 
   of 8406d (23.01yr). Optical brightness and continuum polarimetry seem to 
   vary with the same period. Polarimetric changes are in phase with the 
   emission strength. The brightness of the object attains maximum during the 
   rise of emission. Then it declines to a local minimum which coincides with 
   the maximum strength of the Balmer emission. Possible qualitative 
   interpretation of these facts is briefly outlined.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl    Records    Explanations
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ReadMe          80          .    This file
table1          61          4    List of comparison and check stars
table2          50          8    Seasonal means of UBV observations of Kappa Dra
table3          52        112    Nightly means of UBV observations of Kappa Dra
table4          55         82    Published photometry of Kappa Dra
table5a         25         41    Equivalent width of H alpha
table5b         26        110    Strength of emission of H beta
table6a         20         26    Published equivalent width of H alpha
table6b         20         42    Published strength of emission of H beta
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   3-  6  I4     ---     HR       []? HR denomination
   8- 13  I6     ---     HD       HD denomination
  15- 21  A7     ---     BD       BD denomination
  23- 34  A12    ---     Rem      Remarks
  36- 40  F5.3   mag     V        V magnitude
  42- 46  F5.3   mag     B-V      B-V colour
  48- 52  F5.3   mag     U-B      U-B colour
  54- 61  A8     ---     Sp       Spectral type
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   5- 12  F8.3   d       Season   Observation date
  14- 16  I3     ---     Nobs     Number of individual observations in given
                                   season
  20- 24  F5.3   mag     V        V magnitude
  26- 30  F5.3   mag     B        B magnitude
  33- 37  F5.3   mag     U        U magnitude
  40- 44  F5.3   mag     B-V      B-V colour
  46- 50  F5.3   mag     U-B      U-B colour
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3 table4
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 12  F12.4  d       HJD      Mean heliocentric Julian date of observation
  15- 16  I2     ---     Nobs     []? number of individual observations (table3)
  20- 24  F5.3   mag     V        []? V magnitude
  26- 30  F5.3   mag     B        []? B magnitude
  33- 37  F5.3   mag     U        []? U magnitude
  40- 45  F6.3   mag     B-V      []? B-V colour
  47- 52  F6.3   mag     U-B      []? U-B colour
  54- 55  A2     ---     Ref      References (table4) (1)
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Note (1): A: Mendoza E.E. 1958, ApJ 128, 207
          B: Haeggkvist L. & Oja T. 1966, Ark. Astron. 4, 137
          C: Johnson H.L. et al. 1966, Comm. Lun. Planet. Lab. 4, 99
          D: Burki D.G. 1980, Geneva photometry of Be stars, priv. comm.
          E: Papousek J. 1979, Scripta Fac. Sci. Nat. Univ. Purkynianae
              Brunensis Phys. 9, 75
          F: Dapergolas A. et al. 1981, Inf. Bull. Var. Stars No. 1920
          G: Schuster W.J. & Alvarez M. 1983, PASP 95, 35
          H: Johnson H.L. & Mitchell R.I. 1969, Comm. Lun. Planet. Lab. 8, 1
          I: Gulliver A.F. 1983, priv. comm.
          J: Alvarez M. & Schuster W.J. 1982, Rev. Mex. Astron.
              Astrofis. 5, 173
          K: Schuster W.J. & Guichard J. 1984, Rev. Mex. Astron.
              Astrofis. 9, 141
          L: Catalano S. & Umana G. 1987, Physics of the Be stars, IAU Colloq.
              N0. 92, 101 and private communication
          M: Haeggkvist L. 1971, A&A 12, 5
    Symbols * and + attached to the authors code in the last column denote
    original measurements in other photometric systems than UBV, and publication
    of only mean values of individual measurements, respectively. No exact times
    of observations were given in papers A, B, G, H and M.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5a table6a
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   2- 12  F11.3  d       HJD      Mean heliocentric Julian date of observation
  14- 18  F5.2   ---     EW       Equivalent width of Halpha line
  20- 21  A2     ---     Source   Source (see note (1) of table5b)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5b table6b
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 12  F12.4  d       HJD      Mean heliocentric Julian date of observation
  14- 18  F5.3   ---     E/C      Strength of Hbeta emission
  20- 21  A2     ---     Source   Source (1)
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Note (1): O :  photographic spectrograms from Ondrejov
          OR:  Reticon spectrograms from Ondrejov
          R :  photographic spectrograms from Rozen
          CD:  CCD spectrograms from Crimea
          A :  Underhill A.B. 1953, MNRAS 113, 477
          B :  Bahng J.D.R. 1976, Be and Shell Stars, IAU Symposium No. 70,
                ed. A. Slettebak (D. Reidel, Dordrecht) 41
          C :  Lacy C.H. 1977, ApJ 212, 132
          D :  Slettebak A. & Reynolds R.C. 1978, ApJ 38, 205
          E :  Reynolds R.C. & Slettebak A. 1980, PASP 92, 472
          F :  Andrillat Y. & Fehrenbach C. 1981, Workshop On Pulsating Be Stars
                eds. G.E.V.O.N. and C. Sterken (Nice Observatory Publ.) 255
          G :  Ghosh K.K. 1990, ApJS 72, 543
          H :  Curtiss R.H. 1932, Publ. Astron. Obs. Univ. Michigan 4,
                 No. 12, 163
          I :  Jessup M.K. 1932, ApJ 76, 75
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(End)                                           Patricia Bauer [CDS] 18-Oct-1994

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