Unbound or distant planetary mass population detected by gravitational microlensing

Nature

Volumn 473, Issue 7347, 2011, Pages 349-352

  Sumi, T ^a,b   Kamiya, K ^b   Bennett, D P ^c   Bond, I A ^d   Abe, F ^b   Botzler, C S ^e   Fukui, A ^b   Furusawa, K ^b   Hearnshaw, J B ^f   Itow, Y ^b   Kilmartin, P M ^g   Korpela, A ^h   Lin, W ^d   Ling, C H ^d   Masuda, K ^b   Matsubara, Y ^b   Miyake, N ^b   Motomura, M ^b   Muraki, Y ⁱ   Nagaya, M ^b   Nakamura, S ^b   Ohnishi, K ^j   Okumura, T ^b   Perrott, Y C ^k   Rattenbury, N ^e   Saito, To ^l   Sako, T ^h   Sullivan, D J ^b   Sweatman, W L ^d   Tristram, P J ^e   Yock, P C M ^e   Udalski, A ^m   Szymanski M K ^m   Kubiak, M ^m   Pietrzynski G ^m,n   Poleski, R ^m   SoszyAnski I ^m   Wyrzykowski, L ^o   Ulaczyk, K ^m   more..

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^h VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

ⁱ KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j NAGANO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^l TOKYO METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASTRONOMY; GRAVITY FIELD; JUPITER; MICROLAYER; PHOTOMETER; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SURFACE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GRAVITATIONAL MICROLENSING; GRAVITY SENSING; IMAGING; LIGHT; MASS; PHOTOMETRY; PLANETARY MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 79956297901     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10092     Document Type: Article

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