The dynamical evolution of massive black hole binaries - II. Self-consistent N-body integration

New Astronomy

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 533-554

  Quinlan, Gerald D ^a,b   Hernquist, Lars ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California ^*  (Canada)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Black hole physics; Celestial mechanics, stellar dynamics; Galaxies: nuclei

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000928404     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1384-1076(97)00039-0     Document Type: Article

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