A rotating disk of gas and dust around a young counterpart to β Pictoris

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6642, 1997, Pages 555-557

  Mannings, Vincent ^a   Koerner, David W ^b   Sargent, Anneila I ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; GENE DISRUPTION; GRAVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ASTRONOMY; CARBON MONOXIDE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; INTERFEROMETRY;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0030855161     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/41505     Document Type: Article

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