Black hole mergers: Can gas discs solve the 'final parsec' problem?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 398, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1392-1402

  Lodato, G ^a,b   Nayakshin, S ^a   King, A R ^a   Pringle, J E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Black hole physics; Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: formation; Hydrodynamics; Instabilities

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; FLOCCULATION; GALAXIES; GASES; GRAVITATION; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; STARS;

ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; BLACK HOLES; COSMOLOGY: THEORY; FINITE MASS; GALAXY FORMATIONS; STARS FORMATION; SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES; TIDAL TORQUE; TIME-SCALES;

MERGING;

EID: 70249091464     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15179.x     Document Type: Article

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