Predicting the direction of the final spin from the coalescence of two black holes

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 704, Issue 1 PART 2, 2009, Pages

  Barausse, Enrico ^a   Rezzolla, Luciano ^b,c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: nuclei; Gravitational waves; Relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349108676     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/704/1/L40     Document Type: Article

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