VERITAS search for vhe gamma-ray emission from dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 720, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1174-1180

  Acciari, V A ^a   Arlen, T ^b   Aune, T ^c   Beilicke, M ^d   Benbow, W ^a   Boltuch, D ^e   Bradbury, S M ^f   Buckley, J H ^d   Bugaev, V ^d   Byrum, K ^g   Cannon, A ^h   Cesarini, A ⁱ   Christiansen, J L ^j   Ciupik, L ^k   Cui, W ^l   Dickherber, R ^d   Duke, C ^m   Finley, J P ^l   Finnegan, G ⁿ   Furniss, A ^c   Galante, N ^a   Godambe, S ⁿ   Grube, J ^k   Guenette, R ^o   Gyuk, G ^k   Hanna, D ^o   Holder, J ^e   Hui, C M ⁿ   Humensky, T B ^p   Imran, A ^q   Kaaret, P ^r   Karlsson, N ^k   Kertzman, M ^s   Kieda, D ⁿ   Konopelko, A ^t   Krawczynski, H ^d   Krennrich, F ^q   Maier, G ^o,y   McArthur, S ^d   McCann, A ^o   McCutcheon, M ^o   Moriarty, P ^u   Ong, R A ^b   Otte, A N ^c   Pandel, D ^r   Perkins, J S ^a   Pohl, M ^q,y,z   Quinn, J ^h   Ragan, K ^o   Reyes, L C ^v   Reynolds, P T ^w   Roache, E ^a   Rose, H J ^f   Schroedter, M ^q   Sembroski, G H ^l   Senturk, G Demet ^x   Smith, A W ^g   Steele, D ^k,aa   Swordy, S P ^p   Tesic G ^o   Theiling, M ^a   Thibadeau, S ^d   Varlotta, A ^l   Vassiliev, V V ^b   Vincent, S ⁿ   Wagner, R G ^g   Wakely, S P ^p   Ward, J E ^h   Weekes, T C ^a   Weinstein, A ^b   Weisgarber, T ^p   Williams, D A ^c   Wissel, S ^p   Zitzer, B ^l   more..

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^g ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

ⁱ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^j CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k ADLER PLANETARIUM   (United States)

^l PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^o MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^q IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^s DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

^v UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^w Applied Physics Instrumentation Department   (Ireland)

^x Universität Potsdam ^*  (United States)

^y DESY   (Germany)

^z UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^aa LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Dark matter; Galaxies: dwarf; Gamma rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049523481     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/720/2/1174     Document Type: Article

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