A gaseous metal disk around a white dwarf

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5807, 2006, Pages 1908-1910

  Gansicke B T ^a   Marsh, T R ^a   Southworth, J ^a   Rebassa Mansergas, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); METALS; PLANETS;

ASTEROIDS; GASEOUS METAL DISK; STARS; WHITE DWARF;

SPACE APPLICATIONS;

ASTEROID; GAS; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETESIMAL; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DUST; GAS ANALYSIS; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WHITE DWARF;

EID: 33845898203     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135033     Document Type: Article

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