Brownian motion of a massive binary

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 556, Issue 1 PART 1, 2001, Pages 245-264

  Merritt, David ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Black hole physics; Galaxies: nuclei; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035920067     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/321550     Document Type: Article

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