A new family of planets? "Ocean-Planets"

Icarus

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 499-504

  Léger, Alain ^a   Selsis, F ^b   Sotin, C ^c   Guillot, T ^d   Despois, D ^e   Mawet, D ^a   Ollivier, M ^a   Labeque A ^a   Brachet, F ^a   Chazelas, B ^a   Lammer, H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Extrasolar planets; Ices

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942614693     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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