Unveiling extensive clouds of dark gas in the solar neighborhood

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5713, 2005, Pages 1292-1295

  Grenier, Isabelle A ^a   Casandjian, Jean Marc ^a,b   Terrier, Régis ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LSCE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COSMIC RAYS; DUST; GASES;

DARK GASES; DUST THERMAL EMISSIONS; INTERSTELLAR GAS TRACERS; MOLECULAR GASES;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

CARBON MONOXIDE; HYDROGEN;

SOLAR ACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY; GAMMA RADIATION; GAS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 14544271009     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1106924     Document Type: Article

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