Precessional Instability in Binary Black Holes with Aligned Spins

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 14, 2015, Pages

  Gerosa, Davide ^a   Kesden, Michael ^b   O'Shaughnessy, Richard ^c   Klein, Antoine ^d   Berti, Emanuele ^d,e   Sperhake, Ulrich ^a,d,f   Trifirò, Daniele ^d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BINS; GRAVITY WAVES; MERGING; STABILITY; STARS;

BINARY SEPARATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNATURES; EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTIONS; MASSIVE BLACK HOLES; NUMERICAL RELATIVITY; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; QUASI CIRCULARS; SPIN PRECESSION;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 84944096342     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.141102     Document Type: Article

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