The dynamical evolution of massive black hole binaries: I. Hardening in a fixed stellar background

New Astronomy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-56

  Quinlan, Gerald D ^a,b  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002251712     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1384-1076(96)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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