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A Summer with Eta Carinae

A Summer with Eta Carinae. Society of Physics Students Intern Program Nick Durofchalk. ABOUT ME. About Eta Carinae. Background Information. The Night Sky – Southern Hemisphere. Carina Nebula. Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae. X-Ray Observations.

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A Summer with Eta Carinae

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  1. A Summer with Eta Carinae Society of Physics Students Intern Program Nick Durofchalk

  2. ABOUT ME

  3. About Eta Carinae Background Information

  4. The Night Sky – Southern Hemisphere

  5. Carina Nebula

  6. Eta Carinae

  7. Eta Carinae

  8. X-Ray Observations X-Ray Light Curve data collected and analyzed by Michael Corcoran et al

  9. Colliding Wind Structure Fast, less dense Wind from Companion Slow, Dense Wind from Primary High temperatures resulting from Wind-Wind Collision Model simulated by Tom Madura

  10. X-Ray Periodic Deep Minimum Deep minimum X-Ray Light Curve data collected and analyzed by Michael Corcoran et al

  11. Binarity Companion Star Primary Star ~40 Solar Masses ~90 Solar Masses

  12. X-Ray Flux Cooler temperatures while companion is within wind-radius of primary Model simulated by Tom Madura

  13. X-Ray Periodic Deep Minimum X-Ray Light Curve data collected and analyzed by Michael Corcoran et al

  14. About my summer work The Internationl Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) Space Telescope Research

  15. Sample Ultraviolet Spectrum

  16. 2507 / 2509 Å Fe II Emission Complex

  17. The Emission Feature at Different Times

  18. Analysis 2 1 3

  19. Results: Strength of the Emission Lines over Time

  20. Results: Comparison Total Emission Line Flux and Local Continuum Flux over Time

  21. Flux to Continuum Ratio over Phpase 9

  22. Further Investigations STIS IUE

  23. Acknowledgments • Theodore Gull • Tom Madura, Mike Corcoran, Kenji Hamaguchi • Caleb Gimar, Jamar Liburd • SPS Staff • NASA Goddard

  24. International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)

  25. Aperture Differences

  26. IDL Programming

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