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A chain regularization method is combined with special purpose computer hardware to study the evolution of massive black hole binaries at the centers of galaxies. Preliminary results with up to N = 0.26 × 106 particles are presented. The decay rate of the binary is shown to decrease with increasing N, as expected on the basis of theoretical arguments. The eccentricity of the binary remains small.

Date of creation, presentation, or exhibit

6-2005

Comments

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article:

SZELL, A., MERRITT, D. and MIKKOLA, S. (2005), Evolution of Binary Supermassive Black Holes via Chain Regularization. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1045: 225–231.

which has been published in final form at doi:10.1196/annals.1350.016. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Henry E. Kandrup, November 4-6, 2004, New Physics Building Room 2205. 3:45 - 4:05 PM, "Evolution of Binary Supermassive Black Holes" presented by Dr. Andras Szell of the Rochester Institute of Technology.

This work was supported by grants AST-0206031, AST-0420920 and AST- 0437519 from the NSF, grant NNG04GJ48G from NASA, and grant HST-AR-09519.01-A from STScI.

Also archived In: arXiv: astro-ph/0502198 v2 11 Feb 2005

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works in February 2014.

Document Type

Conference Paper

Department, Program, or Center

School of Physics and Astronomy (COS)

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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