Dark Matter distribution in the Milky Way: Microlensing and dynamical constraints

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Iocco, Fabio ^a   Pato, Miguel ^b   Bertone, Gianfranco ^a,b   Jetzer, Philippe ^b  

^a INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dark matter simulations; rotation curves of galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955219811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/11/029     Document Type: Article

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