Post-merger electromagnetic emissions from disks perturbed by binary black holes
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Matthew Anderson, Luis Lehner, Miguel Megevand, and David Neilsen Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001, USA Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada CIFAR, Cosmology and Gravity Program, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA (Received 4 November 2009; published 2 February 2010)
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