Diffuse x-rays: Directly observing dark matter?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Forbes, Michael McNeil ^a   Zhitnitsky, Ariel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baryon asymmetry; Dark matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949087320     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/01/023     Document Type: Article

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