[vsnet-chat 564] Re: Eta Carinae periodicies

[Kazunori Ishibashi <bish@barnegat.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Howdy Fraser, 

>Welcome aboard!  "vsnet-chat" is specially reserved for complaints about

Thanks a bunch for the introductory. 

>I love receiving these instant Ph.D.'s! <G>

Well, can't hurt, can it:)? 

>Astronomy as well. If you want a copy of Kris's paper, I can have
>him send it out electronically for anyone who wants it.
>>Yes please!

The paper was accepted by New Astronomy (so quickly!) and will be 
published on-line very soon. And as it turned out that, according
to New Astronomy's regulations, Kris Davidson cannot make a
preprint available to anyone. So we all (well, you all) have to wait 
and see...I apologize about the false information I gave you in 
the previous message. 

>partly our fault because we did such a poor PR on this event, and
>>What about another IAUC?

IAUC is a non-refereed article, so it won't count very much, 
unfortunately. We are working on something else now (which explains
why I am replying to your message so late!). 

Anyway, it can hurt anyone by keep observing Eta Carinae, hopefully 
with CCD or gadgets like that. Experienced human eyes may do the job,
too -- though we may want to be very careful about that -- and surely 
that's the easiest way to find out when something really catastrophic 
occurs to Eta (although we ultimately are not free of false alerms). 
So I hope people in the southern hemisphere would have a good time
hunting Eta Car there. 

Cheers, 

Bish

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