Spectroscopic signatures of the vanishing natural coronagraph of Eta Carinae

A Damineli, F Navarete, DJ Hillier… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Eta Carinae is a massive interacting binary system shrouded in a complex circumstellar
environment whose evolution is the source of the long-term brightening observed during the …

Eta carinae and the homunculus: far infrared/submillimetre spectral lines detected with the Herschel Space Observatory

TR Gull, PW Morris, JH Black, KE Nielsen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The evolved massive binary star η Carinae underwent eruptive mass-loss events that
formed the complex bi-polar 'Homunculus' nebula harbouring tens of solar masses of …

Long-term evolution in ionization of ejecta illuminated by Eta Carinae

A Damineli, ND Richardson, F Navarete… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Changes in the flux and spectrum of Eta Carinae (η Car) since 1900 have been
attributed to the evolution of the central binary by some. Others suggest evolution in the …

Eta Carinae left a curious ladder to climb

TR Gull, H Hartman, MF Corcoran, A Damineli… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Eta Carinae underwent the Great Eruption in the 1840s and a Lesser Eruption in the 1890s.
Its apparent spectrum, modified by intervening ejecta, the Homunculus and Little …

Eta Carinae: the dissipating occulter is an extended structure

TR Gull, H Hartman, M Teodoro, DJ Hillier… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Previous Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
(STIS) longslit observations of Eta Carinae (η Car) identified numerous absorption features …