B[e] stars at the highest angular resolution: the case of HD87643

Florentin Millour (1) , Olivier Chesneau (2) , Marcelo Borges Fernandes (2) , Anthony Meilland (1)

1 MPIFR - Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
2 FIZEAU - Laboratoire Hippolyte Fizeau

New results on the B[e] star HD87643 are presented here. They were obtained with a wide range of different instruments, from wide-field imaging with the WFI camera, high resolution spectroscopy with the FEROS instrument, high angular resolution imaging with the adaptive optics camera NACO, to the highest angular resolution available with AMBER on the VLTI. We report the detection of a companion to HD87643 with AMBER, subsequently confirmed in the NACO data. Implications of that discovery to some of the previously difficult-to-understand data-sets are then presented.

Mots clés: Stars:Individual: HD87643; B[e] stars; High angular resolution; interferometry

Domaines: Astrophysique stellaire et solaire [astro-ph.SR]; Astrophysique stellaire et solaire [astro-ph.SR]

Florentin Millour, Olivier Chesneau, Marcelo Borges Fernandes, Anthony Meilland. B[e] stars at the highest angular resolution: the case of HD87643. Semaine de l'astrophysique française, Jun 2009, Besancon, France. pp.XXX. ⟨hal-00423636⟩