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Jul 2008
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HST Proposal ID #11612. Cycle 17
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Eta Carinae is the only really observable example of structural recovery from a massive giant eruption, a "supernova imposter' event. Moreover it is the only well-observed star above 100 Msun, and its 5.5-year-recurrent spectrocopic events provide extraordinary clues to its surface instability. This truly unique combination of attributes makes it valuable for understanding the most massive stars. A fresh development arose a few years ago: The star has brightened much faster than before, and appears to have entered a rapid stage in its post-eruption recovery. A spectroscopic event will occur at 2009.0, soon after the planned HST servicing mission. Because of the recent secular trend, this event is expected to differ from its well-observed 2003.5 predecessor. The differences will be very important, because they offer clues to very-massive-star structural instabilities that can't be observed in any other known way. Some of the needed observations require HST's high spatial resolution and UV coverage. We propose an efficient, well-chosen set of STIS and ACS observations around the critical time. If the servicing mission is too late for the event, then a subset of the observations will still be merited.;
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