Advances in simulations of generic black-hole binaries

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Campanelli, Manuela ^a   Lousto, Carlos O ^a   Mundim, Bruno C ^a   Nakano, Hiroyuki ^a   Zlochower, Yosef ^a   Bischof, Hans Peter ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 77950579044     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084034     Document Type: Article

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