Effects of wandering on the coalescence of black hole binaries in galactic centers

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 592, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 32-41

  Chatterjee, Pinaki ^a   Hernquist, Lars ^a   Loeb, Abraham ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: nuclei; Methods: n body simulations; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042835435     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375552     Document Type: Article

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