Excess astrophysical photons from a 0.1-1 keV cosmic axion background

Joseph P Conlon1, M C David Marsh

  • 1Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, OX1 3NP Oxford, United Kingdom.

Physical Review Letters
|October 29, 2013
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