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Title: The sudden appearance of CO emission in LHA 115-S 65
Authors: M. E. Oksala, M. Kraus, M. L. Arias, M. Borges Fernandes, L. Cidale, M. F. Muratore, M. Cure

Molecular emission has been detected in several Magellanic Cloud B[e] supergiants. In this Letter, we report on the detection of CO band head emission in the B[e] supergiant LHA 115-S 65, and present a K-band near-infrared spectrum obtained with the Spectrograph for INtegral Field Observation in the Near-Infrared (SINFONI; R=4500) on the ESO VLT UT4 telescope. The observed molecular band head emission in S 65 is quite surprising in light of a previous non-detection by McGregor et al. 1989, as well as a high resolution (R=50000) Gemini/Phoenix spectrum of this star taken nine months earlier showing no emission. Based on analysis of the optical spectrum by Kraus et al. 2010, we suspect that the sudden appearance of molecular emission could be due to density build up in an outflowing viscous disk, as seen for Be stars. This new discovery, combined with variability in two other similar evolved massive stars, indicates an evolutionary link between B[e] supergiants and LBVs.

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Title: Neutral material around the B[e] supergiant star LHA 115-S 65: An outflowing disk or a detached Keplerian rotating disk?
Authors: Michaela Kraus, Marcelo Borges Fernandes, Francisco X. de Araujo

B[e] supergiants are surrounded by large amounts of hydrogen neutral material, traced by the emission in the optical [OI] lines. This neutral material is most plausibly located within their dense, cool circumstellar disks, which are formed from the (probably non-spherically symmetric) wind material released by the star. Neither the formation mechanism nor the resulting structure and internal kinematics of these disks (or disk-like outflows) are well known. However, rapid rotation, lifting the material from the equatorial surface region, seems to play a fundamental role. The B[e] supergiant LHA 115-S 65 (S65) in the SMC is one of the two most rapidly rotating B[e] stars known. Its almost edge-on orientation allows a detailed kinematical study of its optically thin forbidden emission lines. With a focus on the [OI] lines, we test the two plausible disk scenarios: the outflowing and the Keplerian rotating disk. Based on high- and low-resolution optical spectra, we investigate the density and temperature structure in those disk regions that are traced by the [OI] emission to constrain the disk sizes and mass fluxes needed to explain the observed [OI] line luminosities. In addition, we compute the emerging line profiles expected for either an outflowing disk or a Keplerian rotating disk, which can directly be compared to the observed profiles. Both disk scenarios deliver reasonably good fits to the line luminosities and profiles of the [OI] lines. Nevertheless, the Keplerian disk model seems to be the more realistic one, because it also agrees with the kinematics derived from the large number of additional lines in the spectrum. As additional support for the presence of a high-density, gaseous disk, the spectrum shows two very intense and clearly double-peaked [CaII] lines. We discuss a possible disk-formation mechanism, and similarities between S65 and the group of LBVs.

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