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Eta Carinae: UV constraints on possible models. The close binary hypothesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Giovanni Battista Baratta  and
Roberto Viotti
Giovanni Battista Baratta
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astronomico, Viale del Parco Mellini 84 00136 Roma, Italy
Roberto Viotti
Affiliation:
Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale, CNR Via Enrico Fermi 21, 00044 Frascati, Italy

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η Car is one of the brightest stars in our Galaxy. For its luminosity, huge mass loss, large variability can be considered as an ideal laboratory to study the LBV phenomenon, and to give constraints on possible models of LBVs. We propose that η Car is a – possibly binary – F-type hypergiant whose wind is heated by dissipation of mechanical energy.

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Section II: Poster Papers, A Brief List of Catalogs, and Index
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 113: Physics of Luminous Blue Variables , 1989 , pp. 277 - 278
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Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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