Fast coalescence of massive black hole binaries from mergers of galactic nuclei: Implications for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 732, Issue 2 PART II, 2011, Pages

  Preto, Miguel ^a,b   Berentzen, Ingo ^a,c   Berczik, Peter ^a,d,e   Spurzem, Rainer ^a,d,f  

^a ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

black hole physics; galaxies: nuclei; gravitational waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955620769     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/732/2/L26     Document Type: Article

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