Hypervelocity binary stars: Smoking gun of massive binary black holes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 666, Issue 2 PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Lu, Youjun ^a   Yu, Qingjuan ^a   Lin, D N C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxy: Center; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749105926     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521708     Document Type: Article

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