Bona-fide, strong-variable galactic Luminous Blue Variable stars are fast rotators: detection of a high rotational velocity in HR Carinae

Jose H. Groh, Augusto Damineli, D. John Hillier +6

We report optical observations of the Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) HR Carinae which show that the star has reached a visual minimum phase in 2009. More importantly, we detected abs…