Probing the nature of dark matter with cosmic x rays: Constraints from "dark blobs" and grating spectra of galaxy clusters

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Riemer Sorensen, Signe ^a   Pedersen, Kristian ^a   Hansen, Steen H ^a   Dahle, Haakon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 34548391487     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.043524     Document Type: Article

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