The development of a protoplanetary disk from its natal envelope

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7157, 2007, Pages 1026-1028

  Watson, Dan M ^a   Bohac, C J ^a   Hull, C ^a,b   Forrest, William J ^a   Furlan, E ^c   Najita, J ^d   Calvet, Nuria ^e   D'Alessio, Paola ^f   Hartmann, Lee ^e   Sargent, B ^a   Green, Joel D ^a   Kim, Kyoung Hee ^a   Houck, J R ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f CENTRO DE RADIOASTRONOMÍA Y ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^g Centro de Radioastronomía Y Astrofísica UNAM ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

FORMATION MECHANISM; PLANET; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; GAS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 34548331982     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06087     Document Type: Article

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