Mergers of black hole-neutron star binaries. I. Methods and first results

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 680, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1326-1349

  Rantsiou, Emmanouela ^a   Kobayashi, Shiho ^b   Laguna, Pablo ^c   Rasio, Frederic A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Black hole physics; Gamma rays: bursts; Relativity; Stars: neutron

Indexed keywords

EID: 46249134179     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587858     Document Type: Article

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