Constraints on decaying dark matter from Fermi observations of nearby galaxies and clusters

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

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

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter experiments; Dwarfs galaxies; Galaxy clusters; Gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651514643     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/12/015     Document Type: Article

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