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The RXTE X-ray lightcurve of Eta Car through May 15 is available at http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/corcoran/eta_car/etacar_rxte_lightcurve/ The brightening continues, though at a slower rate than expected. Fitting (by eye) a straight line to the brightening since the May 8 minimum, and a line to 3/4 of the last peaks, implies that the next peak will occur on May 31. Presumably this will be the final peak (at a predicted PCU2 L1 rate of about 38-39 cts/s) and if the decline to minimum occurs at the same rate as in 1997, then the X-ray minimum would occur near July 24. See http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/corcoran/eta_car/2003.5/#annotated_lc for more details cheers Mike -- *********************************************************** Dr. Michael F. Corcoran Universities Space Research Association High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 301-286-5576 (office) 301-286-1684 (fax) corcoran@barnegat.gsfc.nasa.gov http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/corcoran/bio.html ***********************************************************
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