Discovery of two young brown dwarfs in an eclipsing binary system

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7082, 2006, Pages 311-314

  Stassun, Keivan G ^a   Mathieu, Robert D ^b   Valenti, Jeff A ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PLANETS;

BINARY SYSTEM; BROWN DWARFS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

GALAXIES;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GRAVITY; MASS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 33645035181     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04570     Document Type: Article

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