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An Unusual Brightening of Eta Carinae

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1999

Authors

Davidson, Kris
Gull, Ted
Humphreys, R
Ishibashi, Kuzunori
Whitelock, Patricia A
Berdnikov, Leonard
McGregor, Peter
Metcalfe, T S
Polomski, Elisha
Hamuy, M

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University of Chicago Press

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HST/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph data show that the apparent near-UV, visual-wavelength, and near-IR brightness of η Car increased by a factor of two during 1998. Meanwhile its Homunculus ejecta nebula brightened by about 30%, the largest fluctua

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Keywords: Circumstellar matter; ISM: jets and outflows; Stars: activity; Stars: individual (? Carinae); Stars: peculiar; Stars: winds, outflows

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/94462

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Astronomical Journal

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