Chasing coronal X-ray emission to the end of the Pleiades main sequence... and beyond?

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1081-1085

  Briggs, K R ^a,b   Pye, J P ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; LIGHT EMISSION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CORONAL X-RAY EMISSION;

SPACE RESEARCH;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0242678283     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)00310-7     Document Type: Article

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