Infrared images of the transiting disk in the aurigae system

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7290, 2010, Pages 870-872

  Kloppenborg, Brian ^a   Stencel, Robert ^a   Monnier, John D ^b   Schaefer, Gail ^c   Zhao, Ming ^d   Baron, Fabien ^b   McAlister, Hal ^c   Ten Brummelaar, Theo ^c   Che, Xiao ^b   Farrington, Chris ^c   Pedretti, Ettore ^e   Sallave Goldfinger, P J ^c   Sturmann, Judit ^c   Sturmann, Laszlo ^c   Thureau, Nathalie ^e   Turner, Nils ^c   Carroll, Sean M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGERY; LUMINESCENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EPSILON AURIGAE; INFRARED RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77950835369     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08968     Document Type: Article

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