Taming astrophysical bias in direct dark matter searches

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Pato, Miguel ^a   Strigari, Louis E ^b   Trotta, Roberto ^c   Bertone, Gianfranco ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; galaxy dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874754157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/02/041     Document Type: Article

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