Is the 130 GeV line real? A search for systematics in the Fermi-LAT data

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Finkbeiner, Douglas P ^a,b   Su, Meng ^a,c   Weniger, Christoph ^d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

cosmic ray experiments; dark matter experiments; gamma ray detectors; gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873690507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/01/029     Document Type: Article

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