Hints on the nature of dark matter from the properties of Milky Way satellites

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Anderhalden, Donnino ^a   Schneider, Aurel ^b   MacCiò, Andrea V ^c   Diemand, Juerg ^a   Bertone, Gianfranco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cosmological simulations; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875834392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/03/014     Document Type: Article

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