A tentative gamma-ray line from Dark Matter annihilation at the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Weniger, Christoph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865244962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/08/007     Document Type: Article

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