The population of viscosity- and gravitational wave-driven supermassive black hole binaries among luminous active galactic nuclei

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) in galactic nuclei are thought to be a common by-product of major galaxy mergers. We use simple disk models for the circumbinary gas and for the binary–disk interaction to follow the orbital decay of SMBHBs with a range of total masses (M) and mass ratios (q...

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Библиографические подробности
Главные авторы: Haiman, Z, Kocsis, B, Menou, K
Формат: Journal article
Язык:English
Опубликовано: American Astronomical Society 2009