Fermi-LAT constraints on dark matter annihilation cross section from observations of the Fornax cluster

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Ando, Shin'Ichiro ^a,b   Nagai, Daisuke ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter theory; galaxy clusters; gamma ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864438976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/07/017     Document Type: Review

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