The steppenwolf: A proposal for a habitable planet in interstellar space

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 735, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Abbot, D S ^a   Switzer, E R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

astrobiology; conduction; convection; planetary systems; planets and satellites: surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960928411     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/735/2/L27     Document Type: Article

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