Black holes in our galactic halo: Compatibility with FGST and PAMELA data and constraints on the first stars

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sandick, Pearl ^a   Diemand, Juerg ^b   Freese, Katherine ^c   Spolyar, Douglas ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark matter theory; First stars; Gamma Ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551675225     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/01/018     Document Type: Article

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