Surprising dissimilarities in a newly formed pair of 'identical twin' stars

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7198, 2008, Pages 1079-1082

  Stassun, Keivan G ^a   Mathieu, Robert D ^b   Cargile, Phillip A ^a   Aarnio, Alicia N ^a   Stempels, Eric ^c   Geller, Aaron ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMOLOGY; MODELING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; LUMINANCE; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAR; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 45749102508     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07069     Document Type: Article

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