A planetary system as the origin of structure in Fomalhaut's dust belt

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7045, 2005, Pages 1067-1070

  Kalas, Paul ^a   Graham, James R ^a   Clampin, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DUST; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SUN;

DUST GRAINS; DUSTY DISKS; LINEAR RESOLUTIONS; PLANETARY SYSTEMS;

PLANETS;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FOMALHAUT DUST BELT; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT; MASS; MODEL; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; THEORY;

EID: 21344445953     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03601     Document Type: Article

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