Broadband submillimeter measurements of the full Moon center brightness temperature and application to a lunar eclipse

Icarus

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-26

  Pardo, Juan R ^a   Serabyn, Eugene ^b   Wiedner, Martina C ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data reduction techniques; Moon; Radio observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244457532     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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