Clumps and streams in the local dark matter distribution

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7205, 2008, Pages 735-738

  Diemand, J ^a   Kuhlen, M ^b   Madau, P ^a   Zemp, M ^a   Moore, B ^c   Potter, D ^c   Stadel, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BARYON; CLUMP; COLD DARK MATTER; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DENSITY; DESTRUCTION; GAMMA RADIATION; GRAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; STREAM;

EID: 49649114807     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07153     Document Type: Article

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