Evolution of binary supermassive black holes via chain regularization

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1045, Issue , 2005, Pages 225-231

  Szell, Andras ^a   Merritt, David ^a   Mikkola, Seppo ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Black hole; Chain regularization; Evolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASTRONOMY; BLACK HOLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; ENERGY; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; TIME;

EID: 23644435458     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1350.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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