Welcome to the Eta Car Wiki
This site is meant to help foster communication between the people and groups interested in the X-ray Minimum of Eta Car which took place on 2450799.792+2\times2024=2454847.792= January 16, 2009. The X-ray minimum should have lasted about 3 months - But didn't!
There's also a site dedicated to the June 2003 Event.
Members:
| M. Rubio | H. Levato | P. Williams |
| Z. Abraham | J. Pittard | A. Pollock |
| A. Damineli | N. Smith | A. Moffat |
| O. Stahl | S. Owocki | E. Lajus |
| N. Morrell | K. Hamaguchi | T. Gull |
| K. Nielsen | J. Hillier | S. White |
| M. Corcoran | G. Weigelt | B. Gehrz |
| K. Weis | D. Bomans | K. Davidson |
| H. Hartman | S. Johansson | F. Kerber |
| R. Iping |
Nothing new above the Sun Dept:
Hence there is a fair a priori probability that the companion is in orbital movement, with a suggestion that the outbursts of light which have occurred in the past have been caused by periastral grazings.
