High-excitation emission lines near Eta Carinae, and its likely companion star

A Mehner, K Davidson, GJ Ferland… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to study the distribution of gas and ionizing radiation around η Car and their
implications for its likely companion star, we have examined high-excitation emission lines …

Eta Carinae across the 2003.5 minimum: the character and variability of the ejecta absorption in the near-ultraviolet

TR Gull, GV Kober, KE Nielsen - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Space Telescope Imaging
Spectrograph (STIS) high-resolution near-ultraviolet (NUV) spectra of η Car's central source …

On the He II emission in η Carinae and the origin of its spectroscopic events

JC Martin, K Davidson, RM Humphreys… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe and analyze Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of transient
emission near 4680 Å in η Car, reported earlier by Steiner & Damineli. If, as seems …

On the Nature of the Central Source in η Carinae

DJ Hillier, K Davidson, K Ishibashi… - The Astrophysical …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
Long-slit spectroscopic observations of η Carinae and its Homunculus have recently been
obtained using STIS on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We have extracted the …

X-ray spectral variation of η Carinae through the 2003 X-ray minimum

K Hamaguchi, MF Corcoran, T Gull… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of an observing campaign on η Car around the 2003 X-ray minimum,
mainly using the XMM-Newton observatory. These are the first spatially resolved X-ray …

η Carinae across the 2003.5 minimum: spectroscopic evidence for massive binary interactions

KE Nielsen, MF Corcoran, TR Gull… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We have analyzed high spatial, moderate spectral resolution observations of η Carinae (η
Car) obtained with the STIS from 1998.0 to 2004.3. The data were obtained at discrete times …

The Hα variations of η Carinae during the 2009.0 spectroscopic event

ND Richardson, DR Gies, TJ Henry… - The Astronomical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on Hα spectroscopy of the 2009.0 spectroscopic event of η Carinae collected via
SMARTS observations using the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory 1.5 m telescope …

Hubble space telescope wide field planetary camera 2 observations of η Carinae

JA Morse, K Davidson, J Bally, D Ebbets… - The Astronomical …, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT Hubble Space Telescope (HST) continuum and emission-line images of η
Carinae obtained with the Planetary Camera (PC) of the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 …

Recent Changes in the Near-Ultraviolet and Optical Structure of η Carinae

N Smith, JA Morse, K Davidson… - The Astronomical …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
Multiepoch HST/WFPC2 images of η Carinae are used to investigate the relationship
between the photometric variability of the circumstellar nebula and the variability of the …

Detection of a hot binary companion of η Carinae

RC Iping, G Sonneborn, TR Gull… - The Astrophysical …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the detection of a hot companion of η Carinae using high-resolution spectra (905-
1180 Å) obtained with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite …