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| Paper: |
Zooming into Eta Carinae |
| Volume: |
464, Circumstellar Dynamics at High Resolution |
| Page: |
245 |
| Authors: |
Groh, J. H. |
| Abstract: |
Shaped by strong mass loss, rapid rotation, and/or the presence of a close
companion, the circumstellar environment around the most massive stars is
complex and anything but spherical. Here we provide a brief overview of the
high spatial resolution observations of Eta Carinae performed with the Very
Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
Special emphasis is given to discussing VLTI/AMBER and VLTI/VINCI
observations, which directly resolve spatial scales comparable to those where
mass loss originates. Studying scales as small as a few milli-arcseconds
allows us to investigate kinematical effects of rotation and binarity in more
detail than ever before. |
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