Inspiral, merger, and ring-down of equal-mass black-hole binaries

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Buonanno, Alessandra ^a   Cook, Gregory B ^b   Pretorius, Frans ^c,d,e  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34347386448     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.124018     Document Type: Article

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