Loss-cone dynamics

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Authors David Merritt

Publication date 18 February 2014

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3268

zbMATH Keywords

capture rateloss-cone dynamicsMilky Wayspherical galaxiessupermassive black hole

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Black holes (83C57) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-02) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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