Deficit of wide binaries in the η Chamaeleontis young cluster

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 652, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 1572-1584

  Brandeker, Alexis ^a,d   Jayawardhana, R A Y ^a   Khavari, Parandis ^a   Haisch Jr , Karl E ^b   Mardones, Diego ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Utah Valley State College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Planetary systems; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: pre main sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845891100     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508483     Document Type: Article

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