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arxiv: astro-ph/0702457 · v1 · submitted 2007-02-17 · 🌌 astro-ph

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Eta Car and other LBVs

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Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs) are believed to be evolved, extremely massive stars close to the Eddington Limit and hence prone to bouts of large-scale, unstable mass loss. I discuss current understanding of the evolutionary state of these objects, the role duplicity may play and known physical characteristics of these stars using the X-ray luminous LBVs Eta Carinae and HD 5980 as test cases.

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