A confirmed location in the galactic halo for the high-velocity cloud 'chain A'

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6740, 1999, Pages 138-141

  Van Woerden, Hugo ^a   Schwarz, Ulrich J ^a   Peletier, Reynier F ^a,b   Wakker, Bart P ^c   Kalberla, Peter M W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLOUD; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM; VELOCITY;

EID: 0033536192     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22061     Document Type: Article

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