Thomas Rivinius

TL;DR: Recent results for classical Be stars are reviewed and links to general astrophysics are presented in this article, where the authors show that the evidence that Be stars do not form a homogeneous group with respect to disk formation is growing or the short-term periodic variability is less important than previously thought.

TL;DR: A review of the current state of knowledge concerning the central stars as nonradially pulsating objects and non-magnetic stars, as far as it concerns large-scale, i.e., mostly dipolar, global fields, can be found in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the first time-dependent models of the dissipation of a viscous decretion disk and determine that the viscosity parameter α = 1.0 ± 0.2, corresponding to a mass injection rate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a grid of synthetic light curves, computed from coupled hydrodynamic and radiative transfer calculations, to model disc formation and dissipation in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of the secondary on the decretion disc are its truncation and the accumulation of material inwards of truncation, which can be used to detect invisible companions.