Giant outbursts of luminous blue variables and the formation of the homunculus nebula around η carinae

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 520, Issue 1 PART 2, 1999, Pages

  Langer, Norbert ^a,b,d   García Segura, Guillermo ^b   Mordecai Mark Mac, Low ^c,e,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumstellar matter; Hydrodynamics; Stars: evolution; Stars: individual ( carinae); Stars: mass loss; Stars: rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039064995     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/312131     Document Type: Article

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