Detecting life-bearing extrasolar planets with space telescopes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 684, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1404-1415

  Beckwith, Steven V W ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extraterrestrial intelligence; Planetary systems; Techniques: miscellaneous; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049124253     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590466     Document Type: Article

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