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J/AJ/129/2018       RXTE scaled fluxes of eta Car              (Corcoran+, 2005)
X-ray monitoring of η Carinae: variations on a theme.
    Corcoran M.F.
   <Astron. J., 129, 2018-2025 (2005)>
   =2005AJ....129.2018C
ADC_Keywords: Stars, early-type ; X-ray sources

Keywords: binaries: general - stars: early-type -
          stars: individual (η Carinae) - X-rays: stars

Abstract:
    We present monitoring observations by the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer
    of the 2-10keV X-ray emission from the supermassive star η Carinae
    from 1996 through late 2003. These data cover more than one of the
    stellar variability cycles in temporal detail and include especially
    detailed monitoring through two X-ray minima.

Description:
    Most of the early data were obtained using three proportional counter
    units (PCUs). There were a total of 976 RXTE observations of Carinae
    between 1996 February 9 and 2004 November 2, an average of one
    observation every 3.3 days.
Objects:
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       RA   (2000)   DE      Designation(s)
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    10 45 03.6   -59 41 04   η Carinae = V* eta Car
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File Summary:

       FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations

ReadMe            80        .   This file
table2.dat        66      976   RXTE scaled fluxes


See also:
 J/other/NewA/15.108 : UBVRIHalpha of eta Car in 2009 (Fernandez-Lajus+ 2010)
 J/ApJS/181/473 : Eta Carinae: visible and near-IR analysis (Nielsen+, 2009)
 J/A+A/493/1093 : BVRI light curves of eta Car (Fernandez-Lajus+, 2009)
 J/ApJS/168/289 : NUV spectrum of eta Car in 2003.5 (Nielsen+, 2007)
 J/ApJS/163/173 : UV spectrum of eta Car in 2003.5 (Gull+, 2006)
 J/ApJS/157/138 : UV spectrum of eta Car (Nielsen+, 2005)
 J/A+A/419/215  : Emission lines of eta Car (Hartman+, 2004)
 J/A+A/343/847  : Geneva Photometry of Eta Car (van Genderen+ 1999)
 J/A+A/304/415  : uvby-Hbeta photometry of Eta Car 1992-94 (van Genderen+, 1995)
 J/ApJS/71/983  : UV spectrum of eta Car (Viotti+ 1989)


Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat

   Bytes Format Units        Label    Explanations

   1- 10  A10   "YYYY/MM/DD" Obs.Date  UT date of the Observation
  12- 13  I2    h            Obs.h    UT hour of the Observation
  15- 25  F11.3 d            JD       Julian Date of the Observation
  27- 31  F5.2  10-14W/m2    PCU0     ? 2-10keV flux measured by Proportional
                                        Counter Unit 0 (1)
  33- 37  F5.2  10-14W/m2    PCU1     ? 2-10keV flux measured by Proportional
                                        Counter Unit 1 (1)
  39- 43  F5.2  10-14W/m2    PCU2     ? 2-10keV flux measured by Proportional
                                        Counter Unit 2 (1)
  45- 49  F5.2  10-14W/m2    PCU3     ? 2-10keV flux measured by Proportional
                                        Counter Unit 3 (1)
  51- 55  F5.2  10-14W/m2    PCU4     ? 2-10keV flux measured by Proportional
                                        Counter Unit 4 (1)
  57- 61  F5.2  10-14W/m2    PCA      ? 2-10keV flux measured by Proportional
                                        Counter Array layer 1 (1)
  63- 66  F4.2  10-14W/m2    e_PCA    ? Uncertainty in PCA (1)

Note (1): In units of 10-11ergs/s/cm2. Fluxes have not been corrected for
          absorption.


History:
    From electronic version of the journal
(End)                   Greg Schwarz [AAS], Marianne Brouty [CDS]    31-Aug-2005