The gamma-ray-flux PDF from galactic halo substructure

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Lee, Samuel K ^a   Ando, Shin'Ichiro ^a   Kamionkowski, Marc ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter; Structure of galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350669709     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/07/007     Document Type: Article

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