HST Treasury Program on Eta Carinae ("ETACAR")

Kris Davidson is the PI for an HST Treasury Program that observed Eta Carinae. Two HST programs were associated with this project: 9420 and 9973. Data from other programs have also been included for the creation of this data set, including: 7302, 8036, 8327, 8483, 8619, 9083, and 9337. The project has produced a series of technical memorada that detail processing techniques, definitions, mathematical considerations and other details. Although the treasury program was designed to obtain data during an anticipated spectroscopic event in mid-2003, this star and its ejecta have unique characteristics that make them important to several branches of astrophysics. Observations were obtained using the HST STIS/CCD, STIS/MAMA, WFCP2 and ACS images. Currently only the STIS/CCD observations have been released by the team.