The dark matter density in the solar neighborhood reconsidered

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  De Boer, W ^a   Weber, M ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; rotation curves of galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955577639     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/04/002     Document Type: Article

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