Solving the cusp-core problem with a novel scalar field dark matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Su, Kung Yi ^a   Chen, Pisin ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter theory; rotation curves of galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052519532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/08/016     Document Type: Article

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