Annihilation vs. Decay: Constraining dark matter properties from a gamma-ray detection

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Palomares Ruiz, Sergio ^a   Siegal Gaskins, Jennifer M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter theory; Dwarfs galaxies; Gamma ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955397978     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/07/023     Document Type: Article

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