Limits on the radiative decay of sterile neutrino dark matter from the unresolved cosmic and soft x-ray backgrounds

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Abazajian, Kevork N ^a,b   Markevitch, Maxim ^c,d   Koushiappas, Savvas M ^b,e   Hickox, Ryan C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d Department of Satellite Monitoring Technologies   (Russian Federation)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 33947380629     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.063511     Document Type: Article

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