Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Correlations between long-term spectrophotometric and optical spectroscopic variations are investigated in some Be stars. Using spectrophotometric variations as a function of time and a compilation of spectroscopic measurements, we investigated temporal variations of emission and shell line parameters. In some cases time lags between spectroscopic and spectrophotmetric variations could be estimated. We could not find precise relations between the spectroscopic and spectrophotometric behaviours, but a number of tendencies could be derived which give information on physical parameters of circumstellar envelopes in Be stars.