The efficiency of the spiral-in of a black hole to the Galactic Centre

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 344, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-32

  Spinnato, Piero F ^a   Fellhauer, Michael ^b   Portegies Zwart, Simon F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Celestial mechanics; Galaxy: bulge; Methods: N body simulations; Methods: numerical; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; EFFICIENCY; GRAVITATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; STARS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; CELESTIAL MECHANICS; COULOMB LOGARITHMS; GALACTIC CENTER; GALAXY:BULGE; METHOD: NUMERICAL; METHODS:N-BODY SIMULATIONS; STAR CLUSTERS; STELLAR DYNAMICS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0141955832     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06782.x     Document Type: Article

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