The Galactic Center GeV excess from a series of leptonic cosmic-ray outbursts

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Cholis, Ilias ^a,b   Evoli, Carmelo ^c,d   Calore, Francesca ^e   Linden, Tim ^f,g   Weniger, Christoph ^e   Hooper, Dan ^b,h  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d GRAN SASSO SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmic ray theory; gamma ray theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953882501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/12/005     Document Type: Article

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