An upper limit on the contribution of accreting white dwarfs to the type Ia supernova rate

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7283, 2010, Pages 924-925

  Gilfanov, Marat ^a,b   Bogdán, Ákos ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b Department of Satellite Monitoring Technologies   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; COSMOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELLIPSE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; LIMIT ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENCE; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; SOLAR POWER; THERMAL POWER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77249125928     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08685     Document Type: Article

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