Binary Black Hole Mergers from Globular Clusters: Implications for Advanced LIGO

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Rodriguez, Carl L ^a   Morscher, Meagan ^a   Pattabiraman, Bharath ^a,b   Chatterjee, Sourav ^a   Haster, Carl Johan ^a,c   Rasio, Frederic A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

BLACK HOLES; GALACTIC FIELDS; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS; GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTION; MILKY WAYS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; STELLAR EVOLUTIONS;

STARS;

EID: 84938774296     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.051101     Document Type: Article

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