Journal article
Light echoes reveal an unexpectedly cool η Carinae during its nineteenth-century Great Eruption
Abstract
Light echoes from the massive binary star η Carinae reveal it to have been much cooler than models suggest during its Great Eruption in 1840 but the cause of the eruption remains unknown.
Authors
Rest A; Prieto JL; Walborn NR; Smith N; Bianco FB; Chornock R; Welch DL; Howell DA; Huber ME; Foley RJ
Journal
Nature, Vol. 482, No. 7385, pp. 375–378
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
February 2012
DOI
10.1038/nature10775
ISSN
0028-0836