Old and blue white-dwarf stars as a detectable source of microlensing events

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6696, 1998, Pages 860-862

  Hansen, Brad M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; COOLING; ILLUMINATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032572738     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29710     Document Type: Article

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