Binary-black-hole initial data with nearly extremal spins

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Lovelace, Geoffrey ^a,b   Owen, Robert ^a,b   Pfeiffer, Harald P ^b   Chu, Tony ^b  

^a National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 55249083350     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.084017     Document Type: Article

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