Large excess of heavy nitrogen in both hydrogen cyanide and cyanogen from comet 17P/Holmes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 679, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Bockelee Morvan D ^a   Biver, N ^a   Jehin, E ^b   Cochran, A L ^c   Wiesemeyer, H ^d   Manfroid, J ^b   Hutsemekers D ^b   Arpigny, C ^b   Boissier, J ^e   Cochran, W ^c   Colom, P ^a   Crovisier, J ^a   Milutinovic, N ^f   Moreno, R ^a   Prochaska, J X ^g   Ramirez, I ^c   Schulz, R ^h   Zucconi, J M ⁱ  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology   (United States)

^d Institute de Radioastronomie Millimétrique IRAM Núcleo Central   (Spain)

^e IRAM   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^g University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^h EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ OBSERVATOIRE DE BESANÇON   (France)

Author keywords

Comets: general; Comets: individual (17P Holmes); Radio lines: solar system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901200717     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588781     Document Type: Article

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