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Literature Catalog: Very Massive and Supermassive Stars and Black Holes: Astrophysics of Massive Black Hole Binaries: Stellar Dynamics

M.C. Begelman, R.D. Blandford and M.J. Rees, `` Massive black hole binaries in active galactic nuclei,'' Nature, 287, 307 (1980)

P. Chatterjee, L. Hernquist and A. Loeb, `` Effects of Wandering on the Coalescence of Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Centers,'' Astrophys. J. 592, 32 (2003)

A. Gould and H.W. Rix, `` Binary Black Hole Mergers from Planet-like Migrations,'' Astrophys. J., 532, L29 (2000)

B.M.S. Hansen and M. Milosavljevic, `` The Need for a Second Black Hole at the Galactic Center,'' Astrophys. J. 593, L77 (2003)

D. Merritt, `` Rotational Brownian Motion of a Massive Binary,'' Astrophys. J., 568, 998 (2002)

D. Merritt, `` Brownian Motion of a Massive Binary,'' Astrophys. J., 556, 245 (2001)

S. Mikkola and M.J. Valtonen, `` Evolution of binaries in the field of light particles and the problem of two black holes,'' Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 259, 115 (1992)

M. Milosavljevic and D. Merritt, `` Long Term Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries,'' Astrophys. J. (2003)

A.G. Polnarev and M.J. Rees, `` Binary black hole in a dense star cluster,'' Astron. Astrophys., 283, 301 (1994)

G.D. Quinlan, `` The dynamical evolution of massive black hole binaries I. Hardening in a fixed stellar background,'' New Astron., 1, 35 (1996)

M. Rajagopal and R.W. Romani, `` Ultra--Low-Frequency Gravitational Radiation from Massive Black Hole Binaries,'' Astrophys. J., 446, 563 (1995)

N. Roos, `` Galaxy mergers and active galactic nuclei,'' Astron. Astrophys., 104, 218 (1981)

L. Valtaoja, M.J. Valtonen and G.G. Byrd, `` Binary pairs of supermassive black holes - Formation in merging galaxies,'' Astrophys. J., 343, 47 (1989)

A. Vecchio, M. Colpi and A.G. Polnarev, `` Orbital evolution of a massive black hole pair by dynamical friction,'' Astrophys. J., 433, 733 (1994)

Q. Yu, `` Evolution of Massive Binary Black Holes,'' Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 331, 935 (2002)