Discovery of a Large Dust Disk Around the Nearby Star AU Microscopii

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5666, 2004, Pages 1990-1992

  Kalas, Paul ^a,b   Liu, Michael C ^c   Matthews, Brenda C ^a  

^a Radio Astronomy Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; PLANETS;

PLANETARY SYSTEMS; STARS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; GRAVITY; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 1642263759     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1093420     Document Type: Article

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25. Supported by the NASA Origins Programme under grant NAGS-11769, and the NSF Center for Adaptive Optics, managed by the University of California at Santa Cruz under cooperative agreement no. AST-9876783. B.C.M. acknowledges support from NSF grant AST-0228963. M.C.L. acknowledges support from a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship (NASA Grant HST-HF-01152.01). The authors acknowledge the insightful contributions of two anonymous referees.