Limits on the Radiative Decay of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter from the Unresolved Cosmic and Soft X-ray Backgrounds
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Kevork N. Abazajian, 2 Maxim Markevitch, 4 Savvas M. Koushiappas, 5 and Ryan C. Hickox 1 Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Space Research Institute, Russian Acad. Sci., Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow 117997, Russia ISR Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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