Dual jets from binary black holes

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5994, 2010, Pages 927-930

  Palenzuela, Carlos ^a,b   Lehner, Luis ^c,d,e   Liebling, Steven L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^f LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; JET; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY; GRAVITY; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION;

EID: 77955876741     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1191766     Document Type: Article

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