Discovery of a planet orbiting a binary star system from gravitational microlensing

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6757, 1999, Pages 57-59

  Bennett, D P ^a   Rhie, S H ^a   Becker, A C ^b   Butler, N ^a   Dann, J ^c   Kaspi, S ^c   Leibowitz, E M ^c   Lipkin, Y ^c   Maoz, D ^c   Mendelson, H ^c   Peterson, B A ^d   Quinn, J ^a   Shemmer, O ^c   Thomson, S ^e   Turner, S E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GRAVITY; IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MODEL; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033523856     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46990     Document Type: Article

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