North Galactic plane structure with IPHAS Be stars

TL;DR

This study maps the spiral structure of the Northern Galactic plane using a catalog of 1135 classical Be stars identified through the IPHAS survey, providing new insights into Galactic disk morphology.

Contribution

The paper introduces an automated spectral analysis method for Be stars and presents the first mapping of the Galactic disk structure in the anticenter direction using these tracers.

Findings

Catalog of 1135 classical Be stars with spectral types and distances

Initial mapping of the Galactic disk structure in the anticenter direction

Development of an automated spectral analysis procedure

Abstract

Our goal is to investigate the spiral structure of the Northern Galactic plane using as tracers the classical Be stars detected by INT Photometric H$\alpha$ Survey (IPHAS). IPHAS scans the $29^o<l<+215^o, -5^o<b<+5^o$ region in the $r$, $i$ and H$\alpha$ bands. Spectroscopic follow up has been done for the bright H$\alpha$ emitters. We have developed an automatic procedure for spectral analysis, based on the BCD spectrophotometric system. In this paper we present a cataloque of 1135 Classical Be stars, for which we have determined spectral types, astrophysical parameters and distances. From these results we make a first attempt to map the structure of the Galactic disk in the anticenter direction.