Open AccessMind the gap: signs of planets in maps of dusty discs
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2008.49504_12.x
Subject(s) - planet , astrobiology , astronomy , physics , astrophysics
Signs of giant gas‐planet formation in dusty discs that may hold clues to the formation of the solar system have been detected by a clever spectro‐astrometric imaging method that maps how gas in the disc is moving.