Nonthermal particles and photons in starburst regions and superbubbles

AM Bykov - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2014 - Springer
Starforming factories in galaxies produce compact clusters and loose associations of young
massive stars. Fast radiation-driven winds and supernovae input their huge kinetic power …

X-ray emission from Eta Carinae near Periastron in 2009. I. A two-state solution

K Hamaguchi, MF Corcoran, CMP Russell… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT X-ray emission from the supermassive binary system η Car declines sharply
around periastron. This X-ray minimum has two distinct phases—the lowest flux phase in the …

3D radiative transfer in η Carinae: application of the SIMPLEX algorithm to 3D SPH simulations of binary colliding winds

N Clementel, TI Madura, CJH Kruip… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Eta Carinae is an ideal astrophysical laboratory for studying massive binary interactions and
evolution, and stellar wind–wind collisions. Recent three-dimensional (3D) simulations set …

Suzaku monitoring of hard X-ray emission from η Carinae over a single binary orbital cycle

K Hamaguchi, MF Corcoran, H Takahashi… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The Suzaku X-ray observatory monitored the supermassive binary system η Carinae 10
times during the whole 5.5 yr orbital cycle between 2005 and 2011. This series of …

Gamma rays and neutrinos from dense environment of massive binary systems in open clusters

W Bednarek, J Pabich, T Sobczak - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
TeV gamma-ray emission has been recently observed from the direction of a few open
clusters containing massive stars. We consider the high energy processes occurring within …

Zooming into Eta Carinae with interferometry

JH Groh - Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2014 - cambridge.org
Shaped by strong mass loss, rapid rotation, and/or the presence of a close companion, the
circumstellar environment around the most massive stars is complex and anything but …

Eta Carinae and Its Ejecta, the Homunculus

TR Gull - 2014 - ntrs.nasa.gov
Eta Carinae (Eta Car), its interacting winds and historical ejecta provide an unique
astrophysical laboratory that permits addressing a multitude of questions ranging from stellar …