How to find a stellar black hole

Science

Volumn 292, Issue 5519, 2001, Pages 1079-1080

  Dolan, Joseph F ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CALCULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; GRAVITY; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; X RAY;

EID: 0035843958     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1061665     Document Type: Short Survey

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17. The author acknowledges support from the Hubble Space Telescope project awarded to the High Speed Photometer Science Team at the University of Wisconsin.