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arXiv 1709.06210astro-ph.SR
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基于13年HST成像的Eta Carinae侏儒的中等精确动力学年龄

A moderately precise dynamical age for the Homunculus of Eta Carinae based on 13 years of HST imaging

Nathan Smith

摘要:

HST档案包含了大量的船底座η星的图像,本文分析了那些最适合测量其膨胀的侏儒星云的图像。通过侏儒的多个强度跟踪揭示了星云整体大小的分数增加;这避免了登记的不确定性,减轻了亮度波动,并且独立于以前的方法。将F631 N滤波器中宽视场行星照相机2(WFPC 2)图像的13年基线与F550 M滤波器中高级巡天照相机/高分辨率通道(ACS/HRC)图像的4年基线相结合,得出抛射日期(假设线性运动)为1847.1($\pm$ 0.8年)。这一结果提高了精度,但与Morse等人先前的研究非常一致。(2001),使用了较短的时间基线和不同的分析方法。这个更精确的日期与偏心双星在近星点通过期间的抛射不一致。喷发发生在大喷发的主要高原,而不是在1843年和1838年的短暂高峰期。年龄的不确定性主要是由一个真正的蔓延在年龄的各种节,并通过一些不规则的亮度波动。几个结似乎已经喷出几十年之前或之后的平均日期,这意味着一个复杂的历史的质量损失事件以外的主要明亮阶段的爆发。大规模喷射的漫长历史可能已经在很大程度上被冲击波通过陨石喷射物的通道所抹去,因为大多数物质被扫入一个薄壳,具有几乎一致的表观年龄。

英文摘要:

The HST archive contains a large collection of images of eta Carinae, and this paper analyzes those most suitable for measuring its expanding Homunculus Nebula. Multiple intensity tracings through the Homunculus reveal the fractional increase in the overall size of the nebula; this avoids registration uncertainty, mitigates brightness fluctuations, and is independent of previous methods. Combining a 13-yr baseline of Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) images in the F631N filter, with a 4-yr baseline of Advanced Camera for Surveys/High Resolution Channel (ACS/HRC) images in the F550M filter, yields an ejection date (assuming linear motion) of 1847.1 ($\pm$0.8 yr). This result improves the precision, but is in excellent agreement with the previous study by Morse et al.\ (2001) that used a shorter time baseline and a different analysis method. This more precise date is inconsistent with ejection during a periastron passage of the eccentric binary. Ejection occured well into the main plateau of the Great Eruption, and not during the brief peaks in 1843 and 1838. The age uncertainty is dominated by a real spread in ages of various knots, and by some irregular brightness fluctuations. Several knots appear to have been ejected decades before or after the mean date, implying a complicated history of mass-loss episodes outside the main bright phase of the eruption. The extended history of mass ejection may have been largely erased by the passage of a shock through clumpy ejecta, as most material was swept into a thin shell with nearly uniform apparent age.

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