Extragalactic inverse compton light from dark matter annihilation and the pamela positron excess

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Profumo, Stefano ^a,b   Jeltema, Tesla E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^c University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter theory; Gamma ray experiments; Gamma ray theory; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350671438     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/07/020     Document Type: Article

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