A distance of 133-137 parsecs to the Pleiades star cluster

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6972, 2004, Pages 326-328

  Pan, Xiaopei ^a   Shao, M ^a   Kulkarni, S R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; GALAXIES; INTERFEROMETRY;

STARS;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALCULATION; DISTANCE; GRAVITY; HIPPARCOS SATELLITE; INTERFEROMETER; INTERFEROMETRY; LUMINANCE; PARAMETER; PLEIADES STAR CLUSTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VELOCITY;

CRINUM AMERICANUM;

EID: 1642580781     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02296     Document Type: Article

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