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    • Be Stars Catalog

    Metadata Updated: January 30, 2026

    The BESTARS database tables contains a compilation of data concerning stars of type Be. For the purposes of this compilation, a Be star is defined as a non-supergiant B star which showed emission in one Balmer line at least once. Stars without published MK spectral types have been excluded, except for 132 stars from Bidelman and MacConnell (1973), who used the above definition but included no spectral types. There are 1,159 stars included in this list. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 30, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 30, 2026
    Publisher High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
    Maintainer
    Identifier ivo://nasa.heasarc/bestars
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-27
    Category Astrophysics
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/bestars.html
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 143fe33902481d424e02b3e6906b3d2accfb09de1b4b77fe6986c9481eeaf6de
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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