Unidentified sources in the Fermi-LAT second source catalog: The case for DM subhalos

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Zechlin, Hannes S ^a   Horns, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

active galactic nuclei; dark matter experiments; gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870265767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/11/050     Document Type: Article

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