Background model systematics for the Fermi GeV excess

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Calore, Francesca ^a   Cholis, Ilias ^b   Weniger, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray theory; Dark matter experiments; Gamma ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929090699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/03/038     Document Type: Article

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