All Things Homunculus

N Smith - Eta carinae and the supernova impostors, 2012 - Springer
Abstract The “Homunculus” nebula around Eta Carinae is one of our most valuable tools for
understanding the extreme nature of episodic pre-supernova mass loss in the most massive …

[HTML][HTML] The dusty homunculus nebula of Eta Carinae

N Smith - The Fate of the Most Massive Stars, 2005 - adsabs.harvard.edu
I review recent observational results concerning the structure, kinematics, mass, and dust
properties of the Homunculus nebula around η Carinae. The review is biased toward …

[HTML][HTML] Historical eruptions of Eta Carinae: looking through the Homunculus

K Ishibashi - The Fate of the Most Massive Stars, 2005 - adsabs.harvard.edu
The discovery of the Little Homunculus in η Carinae has at least two implications:(1) the mini
eruption of 1890 may indeed have produced bipolar ejecta;(2) the formation process of the …

The Company Eta Carinae Keeps: Stellar and Interstellar Content of the Carina Nebula

NR Walborn - Eta Carinae and the Supernova Impostors, 2012 - Springer
The remarkable, interrelated stellar and nebular constituents of η Carinae's habitat, the giant
Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), are reviewed. They are relevant to the interpretation of η Car …

Eta Carinae: an Astrophysical Laboratory

KE Nielsen, TR Gull - Physica Scripta, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Eta Carinae provides a unique example to investigate a massive star in a late evolutionary
phase and how CNO-processed material is ejected and mixed with the interstellar medium …

Catching the Butterfly and the Homunculus of η Carinae with ALMA

LA Zapata, L Loinard, M Fernández-López… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature and origin of the molecular gas component located in the circumstellar vicinity of
η Carinae are still far from being completely understood. Here, we present Atacama Large …

A census of the Carina Nebula–II. Energy budget and global properties of the nebulosity

N Smith, KJ Brooks - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The first paper in this series took a direct census of energy input from the known OB stars in
the Carina Nebula, and in this paper we study the global properties of the surrounding …

Light echoes from η Carinae's great eruption: spectrophotometric evolution and the rapid formation of nitrogen-rich molecules

JL Prieto, A Rest, FB Bianco, T Matheson… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present follow-up optical imaging and spectroscopy of one of the light echoes of η
Carinae's nineteenth century Great Eruption discovered by Rest et al. By obtaining images …

[HTML][HTML] HST Spectroscopy of Eta Car's Inner Ejecta

F Hamann - The Fate of the Most Massive Stars, 2005 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Eta Carinae is a massive evolved star that is undergoing prodigious and highly convulsive
mass loss. The Eta Carinae Treasury Team (PT. Kris Davidson) recently conducted an …

On the Formation of the Homunculus Nebula around η Carinae

VV Dwarkadas, B Balick - The Astronomical Journal, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
We have constructed an interacting winds scenario to account for the geometric and
kinematic properties of the Homunculus in η Carinae as seen in recent Hubble Space …