A brown dwarf mass donor in an accreting binary

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5805, 2006, Pages 1578-1580

  Littlefair, S P ^a   Dhillon, V S ^a   Marsh, T R ^b   Gänsicke, Boris T ^b   Southworth, John ^b   Watson, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPACE RESEARCH;

BINARY STAR; BROWN DWARF; ECLIPSING SYSTEMS;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTROPHYSICS; MASS; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION; MASS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33845411286     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133333     Document Type: Article

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