Optical images of an exosolar planet 25 light-years from earth

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5906, 2008, Pages 1345-1348

  Kalas, Paul ^a   Graham, James R ^a   Chiang, Eugene ^a   Fitzgerald, Michael P ^b   Clampin, Mark ^c   Kite, Edwin S ^a   Stapelfeldt, Karl ^d   Marois, Christian ^e   Krist, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; EARTH; IMAGING METHOD; OPTICAL METHOD; PLANET;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DYNAMICS; GRAVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODEL; MOTION; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 57149120313     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1166609     Document Type: Article

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