Innermost stable circular orbit of binary black holes

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Baumgarte, Thomas W ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 85037180204     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.024018     Document Type: Article

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