Spin Flips and Precession in Black-Hole-Binary Mergers
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Manuela Campanelli, 2 Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, Badri Krishnan, and David Merritt 2 Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas 78520 Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, 78 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, New York 14623 Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Golm, Germany Department of Physics, 85 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623 (Dated: January 3, 2007)
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