Pulsars as a source of the WMAP haze

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Kaplinghat, Manoj ^a   Phalen, Daniel J ^b   Zurek, Kathryn M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

CMBR ex periments; Dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory; Millisecond pulsars

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149139111     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/12/010     Document Type: Article

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