A disrupted circumstellar torus inside η Carinae's homunculus nebula

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 567, Issue 1 II, 2002, Pages

  Smith, Nathan ^a   Gehrz, Robert D ^a   Hinz, Phillip M ^b   Hoffmann, William F ^b   Mamajek, Eric E ^b   Meyer, Michael R ^b   Hora, Joseph L ^c  

^a University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumstellar matter; ISM: individual (Homunculus Nebula); Stars: individual ( Carinae)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041807896     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339897     Document Type: Article

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