Near IR observations of eta Car: Reaching its critical rotation?

Kazunori Ishibashi, Andrea Mehner & Takahiro Nagayama

Nagoya University, Japan

This work presents the continuous monitoring of eta Carinae in Near IR at South African Astronomical Observatory (IRSF). Mehner et al. (2014, A&A) hypothesizes that an apparent increase in black-body temperature since 1980 may be indicative of eta Car reaching its critical rotation. This work will simply report its current state of this examination.

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