Chaos and damping in the post-Newtonian description of spinning compact binaries

Physical Review D

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Cornish, Neil J ^a   Levin, Janna ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RADIATION;

EID: 13444306894     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.024004     Document Type: Article

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