Exclusion of canonical weakly interacting massive particles by joint analysis of Milky Way dwarf galaxies with data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Geringer Sameth, Alex ^a   Koushiappas, Savvas M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNIHILATION CROSS SECTIONS; DARK MATTER; DWARF GALAXIES; FREQUENTIST; JOINT ANALYSIS; LOWER LIMITS; MILKY WAYS; WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES;

GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 83655191483     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.241303     Document Type: Article

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