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Gravitational waves from scattering of stellar-mass black holes in galactic nuclei

Ryan M. O’Leary, Bence Kocsis, Abraham Loeb

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2009 · 492 citations · 108 references

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Abstract

The coalescence of stellar mass black hole-black hole (BH-BH) binaries is one of the most anticipated sources of gravitational waves for ground-based interferometers

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