Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Conference Papers Conference Paper Faculty Publications- Conference Papers Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Study of the Balmer Decrements for Galactic Classical Be Stars Using the Himalayan Chandra Telescope of India Subject The topic of the resource Balmer decrement; Be star; emission lines; spectroscopy; variability Description An account of the resource In a recent study, Banerjee et al. (2021) produced an atlas of all major emission lines found in a large sample of 115 Galactic field Be stars using the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT) facility located at Ladakh, India. This paper presents our further exploration of these stars to estimate the electron density in their discs. Our study using Balmer decrement values indicate that their discs are generally optically thick in nature with electron density (ne) in their circumstellar envelopes (CEs) being in excess of 1013 cm-3 for around 65% of the stars. For another 19% stars, the average ne in their discs probably range between 1012 cm-3 and 1013 cm-3. We noticed that the nature of the H? and H? line profiles might not influence the observed Balmer decrement values (i.e. D34 and D54) of the sample of stars. Interestingly, we also found that around 50% of the Be stars displaying D34 greater than 2.7 are of earlier spectral types, i.e. within B0B3. 2024 Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege. All rights reserved. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Banerjee G.; Mathew B.; Bhattacharyya S.; Devaraj A.; Kartha S.; Joshi S. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, Vol-93, No. 2, pp. 504-513. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.25518/0037-9565.11771" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.25518/0037-9565.11771</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85198021451&amp;doi=10.25518%2F0037-9565.11771&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=b538384dd22aaff7ac28fe83546f5773" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85198021451&amp;doi=10.25518%2f0037-9565.11771&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=b538384dd22aaff7ac28fe83546f5773</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Open Access; Green Open Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 17835720; CODEN: BSRSA Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Conference paper Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Banerjee G., Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India; Mathew B., Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India; Bhattacharyya S., Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India; Devaraj A., Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India; Kartha S., Department of Physics and Electronics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Hosur Main Road, Bangalore, India; Joshi S., Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nanital, India