No high-mass protostars in the silhouette young stellar object M17-S01

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7036, 2005, Pages 995-998

  Sako, Shigeyuki ^a,b   Yamashita, Takuya ^a,b   Kataza, Hirokazu ^c   Miyata, Takashi ^a   Okamoto, Yoshiko K ^d   Honda, Mitsuhiko ^a,b,c   Fujiyoshi, Takuya ^b   Terada, Hiroshi ^b   Kamazaki, Takeshi ^a   Jiang, Zhibo ^e   Hanawa, Tomoyuki ^f   Onaka, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CLOUDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR SYSTEM;

MASSIVE STARS; MOLECULAR CLOUDS; SILHOUETTE YOUNG STELLAR; SOLAR MASSES;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; COSMOS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN;

EID: 20244363068     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03471     Document Type: Article

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