A robust, template-free approach to precise radial velocity extraction

VM Rajpaul, S Aigrain… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Doppler spectroscopy is a powerful tool for discovering and characterizing exoplanets. For
decades, the standard approach to extracting radial velocities (RVs) has been to cross …

Detection of very-high-energy γ-ray emission from the colliding wind binary η Car with HESS

H Abdalla, R Adam, F Aharonian, FA Benkhali… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Aims. Colliding wind binary systems have long been suspected to be high-energy (HE; 100
MeV< E< 100 GeV) γ-ray emitters. η Car is the most prominent member of this object class …

Gamma-ray and X-ray constraints on non-thermal processes in η Carinae

R White, M Breuhaus, R Konno, S Ohm… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
The binary system η Carinae is a unique laboratory that facilitates the study of particle
acceleration to high energies under a wide range of conditions, including extremely high …

Uncovering the orbital dynamics of stars hidden inside their powerful winds: application to η Carinae and RMC 140

D Grant, K Blundell, J Matthews - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Determining accurate orbits of binary stars with powerful winds is challenging. The dense
outflows increase the effective photospheric radius, precluding direct observation of the …

CO, Water, and Tentative Methanol in η Carinae Approaching Periastron

PW Morris, SB Charnley, M Corcoran… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The complex circumstellar environment around the massive binary and luminous blue
variable η Carinae is known to harbor numerous light molecules, emitting most strongly in …

η Carinae: high angular resolution continuum, H30α and He30α ALMA images

Z Abraham, PPB Beaklini, P Cox… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present images of η Carinae in the recombination lines H30α and He30α and the
underlying continuum with 50 mas resolution (110 au), obtained with ALMA. For the first …

Colliding-wind binary systems: diffusive shock acceleration and non-thermal emission

JM Pittard, GS Vila, GE Romero - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present a model for the non-thermal emission from a colliding-wind binary. Relativistic
protons and electrons are assumed to be accelerated through diffusive shock acceleration …

Imaging the expanding knotty structure in the close environment of the LBV star Carinae

F Millour, E Lagadec, M Montargès, P Kervella… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
$\eta $~ Car is one of the most massive stars in the Galaxy. It underwent a massive eruption
in the 19th century, which produced the impressive bipolar Homunculus nebula now …

[PDF][PDF] ACCRETION SIMULATIONS OF η CARINAE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF MASSIVE BINARIES

C Neiner, WW Weiss, D Baade, RE Griffin, CC Lovekin - starsandspace.univie.ac.at
This contribution presented high-resolution numerical simulations of the colliding wind
system η Carinae, showing accretion of the primary wind onto the secondary star close to …

Detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the colliding wind binary Eta Car with HESS

F Aharonian, J Mackey, HESS Collaboration - Astronomy & …, 2020 - dair.dias.ie
Aims. Colliding wind binary systems have long been suspected to be high-energy (HE; 100
MeV< E< 100 GeV) γ-ray emitters. η Car is the most prominent member of this object class …