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IAU XXVII General Assembly

Joint Discussion 13: Eta Carinae in the Context of the Most Massive Stars

Rio de Janeiro, 13-14 August 2009

THURSDAY (August 13th) AM: T. Gull, Chair
9:00 H. Hartman: dedication to Prof. Sveneric Johansson
         Invited review talk
9:15 D. J. Hillier: Eta Carinae historical background
         The 2009 monitoring campaign:
9:45 M. Corcoran: The X-ray light curve
10:00 E. Fernandez-Lajus: Optical photometry
10:15 G. Weigelt/ J. Groh:The IR AMBER/CRIRES results
10:30 M. Tavani: Gamma-ray observations of the Eta Carinae region

10:45 Coffee + poster viewing

11:15 A. Damineli: HeII 4686 in Eta Carinae: The Data and Modeling
        3-D Modeling and Application
11:45 J. Pittard: 3D models of the colliding winds in Eta Carinae
12:15 A. Okazaki: 3D Numerical Sims of Colliding Winds in Eta Carinae and WR140

12:30 Lunch

FRIDAY (August 14th )AM: A. Damineli, Chair
9:00 Z. Abraham: Precession and Nutation in Eta Carinae
9:20 A. Kashi: Using the Accretion Model to Determine the Binary Properties of Eta Carinae
9:40 T. Gull: The outer interacting winds of Eta Carinae revealed by HST/STIS
10:00 Poster presentations:
...N. Morrell: Rapid Spectrophotometric Changes in R127 and Reversal of the Decline
...G. Umana: The nebulae around LBVs: a multiwavelength approach
...H. Matsuo: Far-IR Spectroscopic Imaging of ISM around Eta Carinae

10:30 Coffee+Poster viewing

        Mass loss in single and binary massive stars
11:00 S. Owocki: Eta Carinae: A Prototype for Mass Loss near and above the Eddington Limit?
11:30 A. Moffat: What causes the X-ray flares in Eta Carinae?
11:50 K. Hamaguchi: Revealing the mechanism of the Deep X-ray Minimum
12:10 Poster abstracts
J. M. Appellániz: Other Very Massive Stars in the Carina Nebula as observed with HST
C. Rossi: The Luminous Blue Variable Stars in M33

12:30 Lunch

FRIDAY PM: J. Pittard, Chair
        LBVs, Massive Binaries and SNs: Is there a Connection?
14:00 N. Smith: Connections between LBVs and Supernovae
14:30 J. Groh: The S-Dor phenomenon in Luminous Blue Variables
14:50 Matteo Cantiello: Pulsational instability in massive stars: implications for SN and LBV progenitors
15:10 M. Bernsten: Hydrodynamical Models of Type II-P SN Light Curves

15:30 Coffee+ poster viewing

        Massive Binaries and Eta Carinae: What is the Relationship?
16:00 A. Pollock: WR140 and WR25 in X-ray relation to Eta Carinae
16:30 R. Barba: The Erupting Wolf-Rayet System HD 5980 in the SMC: A (Missing) Link in Massive Stellar Evolution or a Freak?
16:50 S. van Dyk: The Extragalactic eta Carinae Analogs
17:10 Summary and Discussion: Morrell/Corcoran/Moffat

17:40 Adjourn