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船底座η的长期光学监测。完整轨道周期的多波段光变曲线

Long-Term Optical Monitoring of Eta Carinae. Multiband light curves for a complete orbital period

E. Fernandez-Lajus, C. Farina, A. F. Torres, M. A. Schwartz, N. Salerno, J. P. Calderon, C. von Essen, L. M. Calcaferro, F. Giudici, C. Llinares, V. Niemela

摘要:

在海山二发生的一些观测事件的5.5年的周期性在一个很大的波长范围内表现出来,并与它的二元性质有关。这些事件被认为是发生在双星组件接近近星点时。为了探测2003年Eta Car的前一次近星点通过,我们开始了密集的地面光学光度观测活动。我们继续观察该物体,以监测其在整个轨道周期中的光度行为和变化性。我们的观测计划包括每日差分测光CCD图像,这是使用0.8米的望远镜和标准的BVRI过滤器在拉普拉塔天文台。测光包括中心天体和周围的侏儒星云。我们提出了我们的观测计划,包括2003年和2008年之间收集的均匀光度数据的最新结果。我们的观测表明,自1998年以来,埃塔汽车的亮度一直在以恒定的速度增加。2006年,它达到了大约19世纪60年代以来最亮的震级(V ~ 4. 7)。然后,该物体突然恢复了它的增亮趋势,在2007年初衰减到V = 5.0,并从那时起保持了相当稳定的状态。我们继续对Eta Car进行光度监测,以期待预计将于2009年初发生的下一次“近星点通过”。

英文摘要:

The periodicity of 5.5 years for some observational events occurring in Eta Carinae manifests itself across a large wavelength range and has been associated with its binary nature. These events are supposed to occur when the binary components are close to periastron. To detect the previous periastron passage of Eta Car in 2003, we started an intensive, ground-based, optical, photometric observing campaign. We continued observing the object to monitor its photometric behavior and variability across the entire orbital cycle. Our observation program consisted of daily differential photometry from CCD images, which were acquired using a 0.8 m telescope and a standard BVRI filter set at La Plata Observatory. The photometry includes the central object and the surrounding Homunculus nebula. We present up-to-date results of our observing program, including homogeneous photometric data collected between 2003 and 2008. Our observations demonstrated that Eta Car has continued increasing in brightness at a constant rate since 1998. In 2006, it reached its brightest magnitude (V ~ 4.7) since about 1860s. The object then suddenly reverted its brightening trend, fading to V = 5.0 at the beginning of 2007, and has maintained a quite steady state since then. We continue the photometric monitoring of Eta Car in anticipation of the next "periastron passage", predicted to occur at the beginning of 2009.

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