Long-term evolution of massive black hole binaries

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 596, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 860-878

  Milosavljević, Miloš ^a,b   Meritt, David ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: nuclei; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242319080     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378086     Document Type: Article

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