Nearly horizon skimming orbits of Kerr black holes

Physical Review D

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2001, Pages

  Hughes, Scott A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GRAVITY; INTERFEROMETER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034898197     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.064016     Document Type: Article

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