Perturbed disks get shocked: Binary black hole merger effects on accretion disks
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Miguel Megevand, Matthew Anderson, Juhan Frank, Eric W. Hirschmann, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, Patrick M. Motl, and David Neilsen Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001, USA Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA Department of Physics, Long Island University–C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, New York 11548, USA Department of Natural, Information and Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo, Indiana 46904, USA (Received 22 May 2009; published 14 July 2009)
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