Planet-planet scattering in the upsilon Andromedae system

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7035, 2005, Pages 873-876

  Ford, Eric B ^a   Lystad, Varene ^b   Rasio, Frederic A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; GALAXIES; ORBITS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

CIRCULAR ORBITS; DOPPLER SPECTROSCOPY; PLANET FORMATION; PROTOSTELLAR DISKS;

PLANETS;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; DOPPLER SPECTROSCOPY; EVOLUTION; MASS; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VELOCITY;

EID: 17644394876     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03427     Document Type: Article

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