ESO-Large Program on TNOs: Near-infrared spectroscopy with SINFONI

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 272-283

  Guilbert, Aurélie ^a   Alvarez Candal, Alvaro ^a   Merlin, Frédéric ^a,b   Barucci, Maria Antonietta ^a   Dumas, Christophe ^c   de Bergh, Catherine ^a   Delsanti, Audrey ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Centaurs; Ices; Infrared observations; Kuiper belt

Indexed keywords

EID: 64149113044     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.023     Document Type: Article

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