A debris disk around an isolated young neutron star

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7085, 2006, Pages 772-775

  Wang, Zhongxiang ^a   Chakrabarty, Deepto ^a   Kaplan, David L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; DEBRIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; INFRARED RADIATION; MAGNETIZATION; NEUTRONS; X RAYS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; NEUTRON STARS; PULSAR; SUPERNOVA;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; EJECTA; EXPLOSION; MAGNETIZATION; MODEL; PLANETARY PHENOMENA; SPACE DEBRIS; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; INFRARED RADIATION; NEUTRON; NEUTRON RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RELATED PHENOMENA; X RAY;

EID: 33645741020     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04669     Document Type: Article

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