Three classical Cepheid variable stars in the nuclear bulge of the Milky Way

Nature

Volumn 477, Issue 7363, 2011, Pages 188-190

  Matsunaga, Noriyuki ^a   Kawadu, Takahiro ^b   Nishiyama, Shogo ^c   Nagayama, Takahiro ^d   Kobayashi, Naoto ^a   Tamura, Motohide ^c   Bono, Giuseppe ^e,f   Feast, Michael W ^g,h   Nagata, Tetsuya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^h SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; GAS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CEPHEID; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 80052581221     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10359     Document Type: Article

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