Radioactive 26Al from massive stars in the Galaxy

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7072, 2006, Pages 45-47

  Diehl, Roland ^a   Halloin, Hubert ^a   Kretschmer, Karsten ^a   Lichti, Giselher G ^a   Schönfelder, Volker ^a   Strong, Andrew W ^a   Von Kienlin, Andreas ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Jean, Pierre ^b   Knödlseder, Jürgen ^b   Roques, Jean Pierre ^b   Weidenspointner, Georg ^b   Schanne, Stephane ^c   Hartmann, Dieter H ^d   Winkler, Christoph ^e   Wunderer, Cornelia ^f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b IRAP   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; GAMMA RAYS; METEORITES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PLANETS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

CYGNUS REGION; MASSIVE STARS; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; PROTOSOLAR DISK; SPALLATION REACTIONS;

RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS;

ALUMINUM 26;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; COSMOS; GAMMA RADIATION; HALF LIFE TIME; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS;

CYGNUS;

EID: 30144446376     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04364     Document Type: Article

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