Warm water vapour in the sooty outflow from a luminous carbon star

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7311, 2010, Pages 64-67

  Decin, L ^a,b   Agundez M ^c,g   Barlow, M J ^d   Daniel, F ^c   Cernicharo, J ^c   Lombaert, R ^a   De Beck, E ^a   Royer, P ^a   Vandenbussche, B ^a   Wesson, R ^d   Polehampton, E T ^e,f   Blommaert, J A D L ^a   De Meester, W ^a   Exter, K ^a   Feuchtgruber, H ^h   Gear, W K ⁱ   Gomez, H L ⁱ   Groenewegen, M A T ^j   Guelin M ^p   Hargrave, P C ⁱ   Huygen, R ^a   Imhof, P ^k   Ivison, R J ^l   Jean, C ^a   Kahane, C ^q   Kerschbaum, F ⁿ   Leeks, S J ^e   Lim, T ^e   Matsuura, M ^d,o   Olofsson, G ^m   Posch, T ⁿ   Regibo, S ^a   Savini, G ^d   Sibthorpe, B ^l   Swinyard, B M ^e   Yates, J A ^d   Waelkens, C ^a   more..

^a KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CAB   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

ⁱ CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^k BLUE SKY SPECTROSCOPY   (Canada)

^l UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^m STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^o UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^p IRAM   (France)

^q LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON; CARBON STAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABUNDANCE; CARBON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OUTFLOW; VAPORIZATION; WARM WATER; WATER VAPOR;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OBSERVATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VAPORIZATION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77956308912     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09344     Document Type: Article

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