Massive disc formation in the tidal disruption of a neutron star by a nearly extremal black hole

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Lovelace, Geoffrey ^a,b,c   Duez, Matthew D ^d   Foucart, Francois ^e   Kidder, Lawrence E ^a   Pfeiffer, Harald P ^e,f   Scheel, Mark A ^c   Szilágyi, Béla ^c  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

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EID: 84879519977     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/30/13/135004     Document Type: Article

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