Reflected light from sand grains in the terrestrial zone of a protoplanetary disk

Nature

Volumn 452, Issue 7184, 2008, Pages 194-197

  Herbst, William ^a   Hamilton, Catrina M ^b   LeDuc, Katherine ^a   Winn, Joshua N ^c   Johns Krull, Christopher M ^d   Mundt, Reinhard ^e   Ibrahimov, Mansur ^f  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^f S YU YUNUSOV INSTITUTE OF THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANT SUBSTANCES   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; DUST; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MODELING; PLANET; REFLECTANCE; SAND; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; GEOMETRY; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND;

EID: 40749121348     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06671     Document Type: Article

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