The contribution of Fermi gamma-ray pulsars to the local flux of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Gendelev, Leo ^a   Profumo, Stefano ^b   Dormody, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray theory; Gamma ray theory; Radio pulsars

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649208317     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/02/016     Document Type: Article

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