The role of gas in the merging of massive black holes in galactic nuclei. II. Black hole merging in a nuclear gas disk

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 630, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 152-166

  Escala, Andrés ^a,b   Larson, Richard B ^a   Coppi, Paolo S ^a   Mardones, Diego ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: nuclei; Hydrodynamics; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844540071     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/431747     Document Type: Article

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