Discovery of a new galactic center excess consistent with upscattered starlight

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Abazajian, Kevork N ^a   Canac, Nicolas ^a   Horiuchi, Shunsaku ^a,b   Kaplinghat, M ^a   Kwa, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

absorption and radiation processes; dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; gamma ray experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937850217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/07/013     Document Type: Article

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