A filament of dark matter between two clusters of galaxies

Nature

Volumn 487, Issue 7406, 2012, Pages 202-204

  Dietrich, Jörg P ^a   Werner, Norbert ^b   Clowe, Douglas ^c   Finoguenov, Alexis ^d   Kitching, Tom ^e   Miller, Lance ^f   Simionescu, Aurora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; KELVIN WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLASMA; PREDICTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; X-RAY;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOMASS; DENSITY; GAS; GRAVITY; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 84863719780     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11224     Document Type: Article

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