The galactic merger-rate of (ns, ns) binaries. I. Perspective for gravity-wave detectors

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 312, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 670-674

  Portegies Zwart, Simon F ^a   Spreeuw, Hanno N ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gravitation; Stars: binaries; Stars: neutron star

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039288959     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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