Explaining the features of the Bipolar Nebulae of η-Carinae through gas dynamical simulations

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Sep 2005

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The Fate of the Most Massive Stars, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 332, Proceedings of the conference held 23-28 May, 2004 in Grand

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Employing an alternative scenario to previous interacting stellar wind models that is supported both by theoretical and observational evidence, we let a nonspherical outburst wind (with a latitudinal velocity dependence that matches the observations of the large Homunculus) interact with a preeruptive slow wind also with a toroidal density distribution but with a much smaller equator-to-polar density contrast than that assumed in previous models. A second eruptive wind with spherical shape is ejected about 50 years after the first outburst and causes the development of the little internal nebula. We find that as a result of an appropriate combination of the parameters that control the degree of asymmetry of the interacting winds, the model is able to produce not only the structure and kinematics of both Homunculi but also the high-velocity components of the equatorial ejecta. These latter arise from the impact between the nonspherical outburst and the preoutburst winds in the equatorial plane (see Figs. 1 and 2 in Gonzalez, de Gouveia Dal Pino, Raga & Velazquez 2004a).
Our model predicts that most of the features of the bipolar winds of eta-Carinae and the source ejection mechanism are directly linked to the central star only, therefore without requiring to invoke the secondary wind of the companion star to explain, e.g., the equatorial ejecta (Gonzalez, de Gouveia Dal Pino, Raga & Velazquez 2004b).

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