A lower limit on the age of the universe

Science

Volumn 271, Issue 5251, 1996, Pages 957-961

  Chaboyer, Brian ^a   Demarque, Pierre ^b   Kernan, Peter J ^c   Krauss, Lawrence M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4243056051     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5251.957     Document Type: Article

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49. The Ohio Supercomputer Center provided computing support for this work L.M.K. thanks CITA, the Aspen Center for Physics, and the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics. P K. thanks CITA and the Aspen Center for Physics. B.C. thanks the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University for hospitality during various stages of this work. L.M.K. received support from the U.S. Department of Energy.