A disk of dust and molecular gas around a high-mass protostar

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7055, 2005, Pages 109-111

  Patel, Nimesh A ^a   Curiel, Salvador ^a,b   Sridharan, T K ^a   Zhang, Qizhou ^a   Hunter, Todd R ^a   Ho, Paul T P ^a,c   Torrelles, José M ^d,g   Moran, James M ^a   Gómez, José F ^e,f   Anglada, Guillem ^f  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^g Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DUST; MATERIALS SCIENCE;

HIGH-MASS STARS; LOW-MASS STARS; MOLECULAR GAS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

COSMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; MASS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CEPHEUS;

EID: 27744465971     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04011     Document Type: Article

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