Compact protoplanetary disks around the stars of a young binary system

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6700, 1998, Pages 355-357

  Rodriguez L F ^a   D'Alessio, P ^a   Wilner, D J ^b   Ho, P T P ^b   Torrelles, J M ^c,d   Curiel, S ^a   Gomez Y ^a   Lizano, S ^a   Pedlar, A ^e   Canto J ^a   Raga, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; CLOUD; DUST; GAS; INTERFEROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032563932     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26421     Document Type: Article

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