Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Life and death above the plane

Nature volume 336, pages 111–112 (1988)Cite this article

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. Greenstein, J.L., MacRae, D.A. & Fleischer, R. Publ. astr. Soc. Pac. 68, 242 (1956).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Bond, H.E. & Luck, R.E. in IAU Colloq, 95, 2nd Conf. on Faint Blue Stars (eds Philip, A.G.D. et al.) 527 (L. Davis Press, Schenectady, 1987).

    Google Scholar 

  3. Klochkova, V.G. & Panchuk, V.E. Sov. astr. Lett. 14, 32 (1988).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. Hrivnack, B.J. et al. Astrophys. J. 331, 832 (1988).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. Musaev, F.A. & Snezhko, L.I. Sov. astr. Lett. 14, 68 (1988).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. Waelkens, C. & Rufener, R. Astr. Astrophys. 201, L5 (1988).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. Conlon, E.S., Brown, P.J.F., Dufton, P.L. & Keenan, F.P. Astr. Astrophys. 200, 168 (1988).

    ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. de Boer, K.S. et al. Astr. Astrophys. 202, 113 (1988).

    ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Leonard, P.J.T. & Duncan, M.J. Astr. J. 96, 222 (1988).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  10. Shields, J.C. & Twarog, B.A. Astrophys. J. 324, 859 (1988).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. Bidelman, W.P. Astrophys. J. 165, 67 (1951).

    Google Scholar 

  12. Stetson, P.S. Astr. J. 88, 1349 (1983).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Mathys, G. Astr. Aslrophys. Suppl. Ser. 71, 201 (1987).

    ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Nemec, J.M. & Harris, H.C. Astrophys. J. 316, 172 (1987).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Benz, W. & Hills, J.G. Astrophys. J. 323, 614 (1987).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  16. Kilkenny, D., Heber, U. & Drilling, J.S. IAU Colloq. 95, 731 (1987).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  17. Ebbets, D.C. & Savage, B.D. Astrophys. J. 262, 234 (1982).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  18. Blaauw, A. Bull. astr. Inst. Netherlands 15, 265 (1961).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  19. Geis, D.R. & Bolton, C.T. Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 61, 419 (1986).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  20. Keenan, F.P. et al. Astr. Astrophys. 178, 194 (1987).

    ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  21. Geis, D.R. Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 64, 545 (1987).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  22. Trimble, V. & Rees, M.J. Astrophys. J. 166, L85 (1971).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  23. Keenan, F.P. et al. Astrophys. J. 307, 694 (1986).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  24. Songaila, A., Cowie, L. & Weaver, H. Astrophys. J. 329, 580 (1988).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  25. Kaeble, A., de Boer, K.S. & Grewing, M. Astr. Astrophys. 143, 408 (1985).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  26. Dyson, J.E. & Hartquist, T.W. Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 203, 1233 (1983).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  27. Odenwald, S.F. Astrophys. J. 325, 320 (1988).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  28. Magnani, L., Blitz, L. & Mundy, L. Astrophys. J. 295, 402 (1985).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, California, 92717

    Virginia Trimble

  2. visiting professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742, USA

    Virginia Trimble

Authors
  1. Virginia Trimble
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Trimble, V. Life and death above the plane. Nature 336, 111–112 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/336111a0

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/336111a0

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing