Discovery of a young planetary-mass binary

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5791, 2006, Pages 1279-1281

  Jayawardhana, Ray ^a   Ivanov, Valentin D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETS; SPACE RESEARCH;

DWARF FORMATION; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; ULTRA-LOW-MASS REGIME;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY; MASS; PLANET; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CAMERA; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY; INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; MASS; MODEL; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33748335403     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1132128     Document Type: Article

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