The formation of a massive protostar through the disk accretion of gas

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6988, 2004, Pages 155-157

  Chini, Rolf ^a   Hoffmeister, Vera ^a   Kimeswenger, Stefan ^b   Hielbock, Markus ^a   Nürnberger, Dieter ^c   Schmidtobreick, Linda ^c   Sterzik, Michael ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DUST; RADIATION; SUN;

DISK ACCRETION; MASSIVE PROTOSTARS; MOLECULAR CLOUD FRAGMENT; SOLAR MASSES;

ASTRONOMY;

ACCRETION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; SOLAR PHENOMENA;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY; DUST; FALLING; GAS; GRAVITY; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE; SUN;

EID: 2442684286     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02507     Document Type: Article

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