A visual bandlight curve for NGC 2363-V1, adapted from Drissen et al. (2001).[5] The purple arrows show upper limits.
NGC 2363-V1 is one of the most luminous stars known. It has been undergoing an increase in temperature and luminosity for the last 20 years, after a dramatic increase in its rate of mass loss. Significant luminosity variation within a human lifetime is rare in LBVs, e.g. Eta Carinae during its Great Eruption (1837 to 1855). NGC 2363-V1 shows an extreme B hypergiant spectrum similar to P Cygni rather than the presently cool Eta Carinae outburst spectrum.[1][2]
References
^ abcdefgDrissen, Laurent; Roy, Jean-René; Robert, Carmelle (1997). "A New Luminous Blue Variable in the Giant Extragalactic H II Region NGC 2363". The Astrophysical Journal. 474 (1): L35. Bibcode:1997ApJ...474L..35D. doi:10.1086/310417.
^ abcPetit, Véronique; Drissen, Laurent; Crowther, Paul A. (2006). "Spectral Evolution of the Luminous Blue Variable NGC 2363-V1. I. Observations and Qualitative Analysis of the Ongoing Giant Eruption". The Astronomical Journal. 132 (5): 1756. Bibcode:2006AJ....132.1756P. doi:10.1086/506512.
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^ abcClark, J. S.; Crowther, P. A.; Larionov, V. M.; Steele, I. A.; Ritchie, B. W.; Arkharov, A. A. (2009). "Bolometric luminosity variations in the luminous blue variable AFGL2298". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 507 (3): 1555. arXiv:0909.4160. Bibcode:2009A&A...507.1555C. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200912358. S2CID 119187994.
^ abDrissen, Laurent; Crowther, Paul. A; Smith, Linda J.; Robert, Carmelle; Roy, Jean-René; Hillier, D. John (2000). "Physical Parameters of Erupting Luminous Blue Variables: NGC 2363-V1 Caught in the Act". The Astrophysical Journal. 546 (1): 484. arXiv:astro-ph/0008221. Bibcode:2001ApJ...546..484D. doi:10.1086/318264. S2CID 13845711.