Disappearance of stellar debris disks around main-sequence stars after 400 million years

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6752, 1999, Pages 456-458

  Habing, H J ^a   Dominik, C ^a   Jourdain De Muizon, M ^b,c   Kessler, M F ^d   Laureijs, R J ^d   Leech, K ^d   Metcalfe, L ^d   Salama, A ^d   Slebenmorgen, R ^d   Trams, N ^d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN;

EID: 0033619260     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46749     Document Type: Article

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