Nuclear cusps and cores in early-type galaxies as relics of binary black hole mergers

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 566, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 801-808

  Ravindranath, Swara ^a,b   Ho, Luis C ^a   Filippenko, Alexei V ^b  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000472882     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/338228     Document Type: Review

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