Reducing orbital eccentricity in binary black hole simulations

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Pfeiffer, Harald P ^a   Brown, Duncan A ^a   Kidder, Lawrence E ^b   Lindblom, Lee ^a   Lovelace, Geoffrey ^a   Scheel, Mark A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 34249983504     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/24/12/S06     Document Type: Article

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