Submillimetre images of dusty debris around nearby stars

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6678, 1998, Pages 788-791

  Holland, Wayne S ^a   Greaves, Jane S ^a   Zuckerman, B ^b   Webb, R A ^b   McCarthy, Chris ^b   Coulson, Iain M ^a   Walther, D M ^c   Dent, William R F ^d   Gear, Walter K ^e   Robson, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Gemini Telescope   (United States)

^d UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN;

EID: 0032560114     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33874     Document Type: Article

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