Dynamics of a massive black hole at the center of a dense stellar system

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 572, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 371-381

  Chatterjee, Pinaki ^a   Hernquist, Lars ^a   Loeb, Abraham ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Celestial mechanics; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Methods: n body simulations; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000004915     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340224     Document Type: Article

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