Discovery of a massive equatorial torus in the η carinae stellar system

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6761, 1999, Pages 502-504

  Morris, P W ^a,b   Waters, L B F M ^a,c   Barlow, M J ^d   Lim, T ^e   De Koter, A ^a   Voors, R H M ^a,f   Cox, P ^g   De Graauw, Th ^b   Henning, Th ^h   Hony, S ^a   Lameres, H J G L M ^b,f   Mutschke, H ^h   Trams, N R ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^h FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

ⁱ EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE;

CARINAE;

EID: 0033518180     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/990048     Document Type: Article

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