Growing massive black hole pairs in minor mergers of disk galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 729, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Callegari, Simone ^a   Kazantzidis, Stelios ^b   Mayer, Lucio ^a,c   Colpi, Monica ^d   Bellovary, Jillian M ^e   Quinn, Thomas ^f   Wadsley, James ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

black hole physics; cosmology: theory; galaxies: evolution; hydrodynamics; methods: numerical

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952153339     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/729/2/85     Document Type: Article

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