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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2016
We have started in 1990 a search for moving bumps in the HeI λ 667.8 nm of mainly southern, bright Be stars. The objects of our sample have been selected on the basis of photometric variability (Cuypers et al., 1989). High resolution (R≥ 30,000), high signal-to-noise ratio (S/R≥ 300) spectroscopic observations have been performed at the brazilian Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica with a CCD camera attached to the coudé spectrograph of the 1.60 m telescope (e.g. Table I). Several hundred spectra have been taken during the last three years. Photometric observations simultaneous with spectroscopy were made on the same site in July 1992 with a two-channel photometer (Stromgren b filter) and a CCD camera (Johnson B filter) installed at two 0.60 m telescopes. The idea is try to disentangle the controversy between NRP and RM models with the help of simultaneous spectroscopy and photometry.