UV habitable zones around M stars

Icarus

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 582-587

  Buccino, Andrea P ^a   Lemarchand, Guillermo A ^b   Mauas, Pablo J D ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE RADIOASTRONOMÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Extrasolar planets; Prebiotic environments; Ultraviolet observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549062898     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

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