| Post-Newtonian simulations of super-massive black hole binaries in galactic nuclei (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| Also archived in arXiv:0810.5253 v1 Oct 29 2008. Publisher version can be found here: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121536915/issue. We present some preliminary results from recent numerical simulations that model the evolution of super-massive black hole (SMBH) binaries in galactic nuclei. Including the post-Newtonian terms for the binary system and adopting appropriate models for the galaxies allows us, for the first time, to follow the evolution of SMBH binaries from kpc scales down to the coalescence phase. We use our results to make predictions of the detectability of such events with the gravitational wave detector LISA. | |||||||||||||||
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