Misaligned spin and orbital axes cause the anomalous precession of di Herculis

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7262, 2009, Pages 373-376

  Albrecht, Simon ^a,b   Reffert, Sabine ^c   Snellen, Ignas A G ^a   Winn, Joshua N ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CIRCULATION; ORBITAL FORCING; PLANETARY ROTATION; PRECESSION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TILT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FORCE; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 70349271018     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08408     Document Type: Article

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