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When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table.
Suppose you’re wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion. Something like a small blue supernova flared for a moment in the depths of his eye sockets. It dawned on Mort that, with some embarrassment and complete lack of expertise, Death was trying to wink.
Eta Carinae (η Carinae, shortened to η Car), formerly known as Eta Argus, is a astral system containing at least two stars with a combined refulgence less than five million times that of the Sun, located around light-times ( parsecs) distant in the constellation Carina. Preliminarily a 4th- magnitude star, it cheered in 1837 to come brighter than Rigel, marking the launch of its so-called “Great Eruption”.
It came from the alternate-brightest star in the sky between 11 and 14 March 1843 before fading well below naked eye visibility after 1856. In a lower eruption, it reached 6th magnitude in 1892 before fading again. It has cheered constantly since about 1940, getting brighter than magnitude 4.5 by 2014.
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Whereabouts of Carinae Supernova
At declination − 59 ° 41 ′04.26″, Eta Carinae is circumpolar from locales on Earth south of latitude 30 ° S, (re Johannesburg lat. 26 ° 12 ′ S); and isn’t visible north of about latitude 30 ° N, (re Cairo lat. 30 ° 2 ′ N). The two main stars of the Eta Carinae system have an eccentric route with a period of 5.54 times.
The primary is a peculiar star, analogous to a luminous blue variable (LBV), that was originally 150 – 250 M of which it has lost at least 30 M formerly, and is anticipated to explode as a winner in the vastly near future. This is the only star known to produce ultraviolet ray emigration.
The secondary star is hot and also largely luminous, presumably of spectral class O, around 30 – 80 times as massive as the Sun. The system is heavily obscured by the Homunculus Nebula, material ejected from the primary during the Great Eruption.
It’s a member of the Trumpler 16 open cluster within the important larger Carina Nebula. Although unconnected to the star and nebula, the weak Eta Carinids meteor shower has a radiant veritably near to Eta Carinae.
Details about Carinae Supernova
The Eta Carinae star system is presently one of the most massive stars that can be studied in great detail.
Until lately Eta Carinae was allowed to be the most massive single star, but the system’s double nature was proposed by the Brazilian astronomer Augusto Damineli in 1996 and verified in 2005.
Both element stars are largely obscured by circumstellar material ejected from Eta Carinae A, and introductory parcels similar as their temperatures and splendour can only be inferred. Rapid changes to the astral wind in the 21st century suggest that the star itself may be revealed when dust from the great eruption eventually clears.
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Orbits and its Lane
The period of the route is directly known at 5.539 times, although this has changed over time due to mass loss and accretion.
The period between the Great Eruption and the lower 1890 eruption was supposedly 5.52 times, while before the Great Eruption it may have been lower still, conceivably between 4.8 and 5.4 times.
The orbital separation is only known roughly, with a semi-major axis of 15 – 16 AU. The route is largely eccentric, e = 0.9. This means that the separation of the stars varies from around 1.6 AU, analogous to the distance of Mars from the Sun, to 30 AU, analogous to the distance of Neptune.
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Categorical Classification
Eta Carinae A is classified as a luminous blue variable (LBV) due to the distinctive spectral and brilliance variations.
This type of variable star is characterised by irregular changes from a high temperature inert state to a low temperature outburst state at roughly constant refulgence. LBVs in the inert state taradiddle on a narrow S Doradus insecurity strip, with further luminous stars being hotter.
In outburst all LBVs have about the same temperature, which is near 37,000 K. LBVs in a normal outburst are visually brighter than when inert although the bolometric refulgence is unchanged.
Size and Temperature of Carinae Explosion
Until late in the 20th century, the temperature of Eta Carinae was assumed to be over 30,000 K because of the presence of high-excitation spectral lines, but other aspects of the diapason suggested much lower temperatures and complex models were created to regard this.
It’s now known that the Eta Carinae system consists of at least two stars, both with strong astral winds and a shocked colliding wind (wind-wind collision or WWC) zone, bedded within a fine nebula that reprocesses 90 of the electromagnetic radiation into the medial and far infrared. All of these features have different temperatures.
The wind-wind collision cone separates the winds of the two stars. For 55 – 75° behind the secondary, there’s a thin hot wind typical of O or Wolf – Rayet stars.
This allows some radiation from Eta Carinae B to be detected and its temperature can be estimated with some delicacy due to spectral lines that are doubtful to be produced by any other source.
Although the secondary star has no way been directly observed, there’s wide agreement on models where it has a temperature between 37,000 K and 41,000 K.
The size of Eta Carinae A isn’t indeed well defined. It has an optically thick astral wind, so the typical description of a star’s face being roughly where it becomes opaque gives a veritably different result to where a more traditional description of a face might be.
One study calculated a compass of 60 R “for a hot core of 35,000 K” at optic depth 150, near the sonic point or veritably roughly what might be called a physical face.
At optic depth 0.67 the compass would be over 800 R, indicating an extended optically thick astral wind. At the peak of the Great Eruption the compass, so far as such a thing is meaningful during such a violent expatriation of material, would have been around R, similar to the largest- known red supergiant’s, including VY Canis Majoris.
The astral sizes should be compared with their orbital separation, which is only around 250 R at periastron. The accretion compass of the secondary is around 60 R, suggesting strong accretion near periastron leading to a collapse of the secondary wind.
It has been proposed that the original cheering from 4th magnitude to 1st at fairly constant bolometric refulgence was a normal LBV outburst, albeit from an extreme illustration of the class.
Also, the companion star passing through the expanded photosphere of the primary at periastron started the further cheering, increase in refulgence, and extreme mass loss of the Great Eruption.
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