A revised historical light curve of Eta Carinae and the timing of close periastron encounters
@article{Smith2010ARH, title={A revised historical light curve of Eta Carinae and the timing of close periastron encounters}, author={N. Smith and D. Frew}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, year={2010}, volume={415}, pages={2009-2019} }
The historical light curve of the 19th century ‘Great Eruption’ of"Carinae provides a striking record of the violent instabilities encountered by massive stars. In this paper, we report and analyse newly uncovered historical estimates of the visual brightness of"Car during its eruption,andwecorrectsomemistakesintheoriginalrecord.Therevisedhistoricallightcurve looks substantially different from previous accounts; it shows two brief precursor eruptions in 1838 and 1843 that resemble modern… Expand
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