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First detection of x-ray variability of eta carinae
The Astrophysical Journal1995Vol. 445, pp. L121–L121
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Abstract
Recent ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) observations for the first time unequivocally reveal the presence of a compact source of hard X-ray emission centered on the peculiar star eta Car. These observations also show a dramatic change in the hard-band (E greater than 1.6 keV) counting rate by about a factor of 2 in a 4 month interval. Thus, strong variability, which is a characteristic of eta Car in radio through IR and visible-band wavelengths, is also observed at X-ray energies. The increase in hard X-ray emission could be the result of a tripling of the mass-loss rate in less than 4 months.
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