Spectrum of a habitable world: Earthshine in the near-infrared

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 644, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 551-559

  Turnbull, Margaret C ^a,b   Traub, Wesley A ^c,d   Jucks, Kenneth W ^d   Woolf, Neville J ^b,e   Meyer, Michael R ^b,e   Gorlova, Nadya ^b,e   Skrutskie, Michael F ^f   Wilson, John C ^f  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Earth; Moon; Planetary systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747069610     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503322     Document Type: Article

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