A generic method to constrain the dark matter model parameters from Fermi observations of dwarf spheroids

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Sming Tsai, Yue Lin ^a   Yuan, Qiang ^b,c   Huang, Xiaoyuan ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

dark matter detectors; dark matter theory; gamma ray detectors; gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875831370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/03/018     Document Type: Article

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