Simulated Milky Way analogues: Implications for dark matter indirect searches

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Calore, Francesca ^a   Bozorgnia, Nassim ^a   Lovell, Mark ^a,b   Bertone, Gianfranco ^a   Schaller, Matthieu ^c   Frenk, Carlos S ^c   Crain, Robert A ^d   Schaye, Joop ^e   Theuns, Tom ^c   Trayford, James W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dark matter simulations; dark matter theory; hydrodynamical simulations; rotation curves of galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953885091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/12/053     Document Type: Article

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