Leaky-wave-induced disks around Be stars: a pulsational analysis on their formation

Be stars are B-type stars near the main sequence which undergo episodic mass loss events detected by emission lines, whose line shape and intensity vary with a timescale of the order of decades. Spectroscopic observations show a large rotation velocity such that one of the prevailing scenarios for the formation of the equatorial disk consists in an increasing equatorial rotation velocity to the break-up limit where gravity is challenged by the centrifugal force. We investigate here a new scenario recently suggested by Ishimatsu & Shibahashi (2013), in which the transport of angular momentum through the photosphere would be achieved by leaky waves, keeping the rotation velocity still below the break-up limit.