Ultraviolet radiation constraints around the circumstellar habitable zones

Icarus

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 491-503

  Buccino, Andrea P ^a   Lemarchand, Guillermo A ^b,c   Mauas, Pablo J D ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE RADIOASTRONOMÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Extrasolar planets; Ultraviolet observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745921794     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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