Systematic uncertainties from halo asphericity in dark matter searches

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Bernal, Nicolás ^a   Forero Romero, Jaime E ^b   Garani, Raghuveer ^c   Palomares Ruiz, Sergio ^d  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

dark matter simulations; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908083941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/09/004     Document Type: Article

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