No stellar p-mode oscillations in space-based photometry of Procyon

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 6995, 2004, Pages 51-53

  Matthews, Jaynde M ^a   Kusching, Rainer ^a   Guenther, David B ^b   Walker, Gordon A H ^a   Moffat, Anthony F J ^c   Rucinski, Slavek M ^d   Sasselov, Dimitar ^e   Weiss, Werner W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ASTRONOMY; EARTH (PLANET); SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROSCOPY; SUN;

PROCYON; STELLAR OSCILLATIONS;

PHOTOMETRY;

SOLAR ACTIVITY;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; LUMINANCE; OSCILLATION; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN;

PROCYON;

EID: 3142731368     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02671     Document Type: Article

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