Supermassive black hole binary evolution in axisymmetric galaxies: The final parsec problem is not a problem

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 773, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Khan, Fazeel Mahmood ^a,b,c   Holley Bockelmann, Kelly ^d,e   Berczik, Peter ^c,f,g   Just, Andreas ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^g NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

black hole physics; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: center

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881449110     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/773/2/100     Document Type: Article

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