Statistics of low-mass companions to stars: Implications for their origin

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 356, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 903-912

  Stepinski, T F ^a   Black, D C ^a  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Stars: binaries: spectroscopic; Stars: formation; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: planetary systems; Stars: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001751047     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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