Deuterium in the Galactic Centre as a result of recent infall of low- metallicity gas

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6790, 2000, Pages 1025-1027

  Lubowich, D A ^a,b   Pasachoff, Jay M ^c   Balonek, Thomas J ^d   Millar, T J ^e   Tremonti, Christy ^d   Roberts, Helen ^e   Galloway, Robert P ^c  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (United States)

^c WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEUTERIUM;

ARTICLE; COSMOS; EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE;

ASTRONOMY; DEUTERIUM; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN;

EID: 0034729807     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016506     Document Type: Article

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