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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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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American Astronomical Society
2009
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