Efficient merger of binary supermassive black holes in nonaxisymmetric galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 642, Issue 1 II, 2006, Pages

  Berczik, Peter ^a,b,c   Merritt, David ^a   Spurzem, Rainer ^b   Bischof, Hans Peter ^d  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c Natsional'noi Akademii Nauk Ukrainy   (Ukraine)

^d Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745297376     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504426     Document Type: Article

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