Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal; March 22, 2000 The Radio Nebula Around HR Carinae

We present a sensitive radio image of the nebula associated with the Luminous Blue Variable star HR Carinae. This nebula is small and dicult to observe optically due to the presence of the bright star. The radio image shows the laments in the outer regions of the nebula seen in optical coronagraphic images. The core of the nebula is elongated north{south on the sky. A compact source associated with HR Car is clearly detected at the western edge of the nebula, but the nebula is very asymmetric with respect to the star, lying almost entirely to the east. The inner nebula shows no evidence for the bipolar structure inferred to exist from observations of the outer nebula: the symmetry axes in the inner nebula are 45 away from the bipolar axes. If the compact radio emission at the location of the star is a classical stellar wind source, we estimate a mass loss rate for ionized gas of 1.8 1