On the nature of low-mass companions to solar-like stars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 526, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 928-936

  Heacox, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Planetary systems; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033272926     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/308033     Document Type: Article

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