Earth-mass dark-matter haloes as the first structures in the early Universe

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7024, 2005, Pages 389-391

  Diemand, J ^a,b   Moore, B ^a   Stadel, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION;

BIG BANG; COSMOLOGICAL MODEL; EARTH-MASS DARK-MATTER HALOES; SUPERCOMPUTER SIMULATIONS;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EARLY EARTH;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DESTRUCTION; GAMMA RADIATION; GRAVITY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SPACE;

EID: 13444251067     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03270     Document Type: Article

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