Constraining sterile neutrino warm dark matter with Chandra observations of the Andromeda galaxy

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Watson, Casey R ^a   Li, Zhiyuan ^b   Polley, Nicholas K ^a  

^a MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; X rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863338155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/03/018     Document Type: Article

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