Spin evolution of supermassive black holes and galactic nuclei

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Merritt, David ^a   Vasiliev, Eugene ^a,b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 84869062171     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.102002     Document Type: Article

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