ETA CARINA WORKSHOP
10-13 July 2002, Mt. Rainier WA
             
        TALKS & EVENTS    
Day Date Session Time Speaker Topic Status
Wed 10-Jul          
    Dinner 6:30 PM      
    Intro 8:00 PM Bruce Balick Welcome, Organizaitonal Issues, Plans confirmed
      8:15 PM Kris Davidson Eta Car as Object and Subject tentative
      9:00 PM David Arnett Asymmetry in Stars confirmed
             
Thurs 11-Jul          
    Breakfast 7:30 AM      
    I. Homunculus: 8:30 AM Nolan Walborn The Company Eta Carinae Keeps: Stellar and Instellar Content of Carinae Nebula
confirmed
observations
    (Chairs: Weis/Morse) 9:15 AM Jon Morse Imaging overview of Eta Carinae confirmed
      9:30 AM Doug Currie Discovery of the ghost nebula: a high velocity emission shell in front of the SE lobe confirmed
      9:45 AM Nathan Smith Homunculus Geometry: Scattered light and Near-IR Obs confirmed
    Break 10:15 AM      
      10:45 AM Bob Gehrz Thermal IR observations of dust confirmed
      11:15 AM Stephen White Radio observations of structure (non-event related) confirmed
      11:45 AM Zulema Abraham Modeling the continuum and recombination lines in Eta Car at millimeter wavelegths confirmed
      12:15 PM Kerstin Weis The physical structure of the outer ejecta and the strings confirmed
      12:45 PM Discussion    
    Lunch 1:15 PM      
    II.Bipolar Nebulae around PN, AGB stars, LBVs and WRs 2:15 PM Garrelt Mellema How to make bipolar nebulae confirmed
    (Chairs: Frank/Mellema) 2:45 PM Bruce Balick The Homunculus' Siblings confirmed
      3:00 PM Adam Frank Hydrodynamic Shaping of the Homonculus: Previous Models and a new spotlight on Clumpy Flows confirmed
      3:30 PM Sean Matt Simultaneous Production of Skirt & Lobes: A Preliminary Model confirmed
      4:00 PM Stan Owocki Bipolarity from Radiatively Driven Mass Loss confirmed

      4:30 PM Discussion    
    Break & Poster Viewing 5:45 PM      
    III. Nebular variability and Physical Processes 6:15 PM Kris Davidson Shape and Orientation of the Homunculus confirmed
    (Chairs: Dopita/Davidson) 6:30 PM Bish Ishibashi Little Homunculus confirmed
      7:00 PM Mike Dopita Radiative Shaping and Acceleration of the Ejecta confirmed
      7:30 PM Katya Verner Photoionization modeling of the Eta Carinae Nebulae confirmed
    Dinner 7:45 PM      
             
Fri 12-Jul          
    Breakfast 7:30 AM      
    IV. Recent Changes in the star and nebula 8:30 AM Mike Corcoran X-ray Variability confirmed
    (Chairs: Smith/Corcoran) 8:50 AM Pierre Cox mm Variability cancelled
      9:05 AM Stephen White radio variability confirmed
      9:20 AM Augusto Damineli Groundbased Spectroscopic Monitoring confirmed
      9:40 AM Roberta Humphreys Eta Carinae's Historical Spectra: Complications for the Binary Model confirmed
      10:10 AM Nathan Smith The Bi-modal Wind - latitudinal confirmed
    Break 10:35 AM   COFFEE  
      11:25 AM Kris Davidson The Basic Nature of the Star and Its Wind confirmed
      11:55 AM John Hillier Modelling the Wind confirmed
      12:15 PM Julian Pittard Colliding Wind Diagnostics confirmed
      12:35 PM Ted Gull The Spectrum of the Weigelt Knots and Innermost Ejecta confirmed
      1:05 PM General (Roberta) The Predicament Posed By the Historical Spectrum confirmed
    Lunch (boxed) & Hiking 1:35 PM Adjourn    
             
    Dinner/Banquet 7:30 PM      
             
Sat 13-Jul          
    Breakfast 7:30 AM      
    Observing the Next Event 8:30 AM Kris Davidson Putting it in perspective confirmed
    (Chairs: Gull/Damineli) 8:50 AM Mike Corcoran RXTE and CHANDRA plans confirmed
      9:10 AM Augusto Damineli Ground-based Spectroscopic Monitoring confirmed
      9:30 AM Stephen White Radio monitoring confirmed
      9:50 AM Nathan Smith Infrared monitoring confirmed
      10:10 AM Ted Gull HST Treasury Plans confirmed
      10:40 AM GENERAL DISCUSSION Observing the Next Minimum  
    Lunch (boxed) 12:30 PM ADJOURN    
             
        POSTERS    
    Presenter Title      
    Dorland, Bryan Dynamical, spatial, spectral and chemical properties  
of the Eta Carinae's Heavy Metal(Sr)filaments: First VLT/UVES Results
    Ueta, Toshiya The Circumstellar Dust Shell of LBV HD 168625: Model Calculations  
    Ueta, Toshiya LBV Observations through mid-IR Window: IRAS 18576+0341  
    Vieira, Gladys Lopes STIS Echelle Spectroscopy of Emerging Shells from Eta Carinae  
    Gull, Ted Cleaning out the Strontium (Briar) Patch  
    Gull, Ted The Shell Game  
    Gull, Ted Eta Carinae Spectral Variations Seen by IUE
 
    Smith, Nathan TBA      
    Katya Verner The Origin of FeII and Emission lines in the BD Blobes of Eta Carinae  
    Humphreys, Roberta Results, Insights and Surprises from the HST/STIS Program on Eta Carinae, the Star, 1998 -- 2002  
    Asif ud-Doula Magnetic channeling of radiatively driven winds  
    Weis, Kerstin A High-Resolution Study of Eta Carinae's Outer Ejecta  
    Weis, Kerstin LBV (candidate) nebulae: bipolarity and outflows  
    Pittard, Julian

In Hot Pursuit of the Hidden Companion of Eta Carinae:  
An X-ray Determination of the Wind Parameters


Frew, David
Historic Observations of the Spectrum of h Carinae



   
 
    3 July 2002, B.B.  
  Please submit papers in pdf or ps format by July 31 to balick@astro.washington.edu