Physics
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Aug 2006
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Calibrating the Top of the Stellar M-L Relation, 26th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion 5, 16 August 2006, Prague, Czech Repu
Physics
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Estimates of the Homunculus and the Little Homunculus suggest that at least 12 solar masses were ejected in the two events of the 1840s and the 1890s (Smith et al 2003 AJ 125, 1458). We have begun a systematic analysis of the metal lines seen in the warm Homunculus and hot Little Homunculus in an attempt to characterize the properties of the gas. Analysis of these structures and the Strontium Filament suggest that Ti/Ni (and likewise Ti/Fe) is overabundant. Likely this is due to oxygen and carbon underabundances which prevent metal oxides forming. As a result, much Ti, V, Sr, Sc, Ni and Fe is left in gaseous phase. The dust associated with Eta Carinae is known to have peculiar properties. Given that many metals normally depleted in the ISM are overabundant in the ejecta of Eta Carinae, we are led to suspect that the gas/dust ratio is underestimated. Observational examples of these hundreds of lines will be shown along with model estimates of temperature, density and abundances.
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