Challenges in explaining the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess with millisecond pulsars

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Cholis, Ilias ^a   Hooper, Dan ^a,b   Linden, Tim ^b  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

gamma ray theory; millisecond pulsars

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938076843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/06/043     Document Type: Article

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