A giant planet imaged in the disk of the young star β pictoris

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5987, 2010, Pages 57-59

  Lagrange, A M ^a   Bonnefoy, M ^a   Chauvin, G ^a   Apai, D ^b   Ehrenreich, D ^a   Boccaletti, A ^c   Gratadour, D ^c   Rouan, D ^c   Mouillet, D ^a   Lacour, S ^c   Kasper, M ^d  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Space Telesope Science Institute ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANET; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SPACE TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY; ENERGY; GAS; IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 77954322910     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1187187     Document Type: Article

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