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astro-ph2007★ 328 cited
Rapid Formation of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Galaxy Mergers with Gas
Lucio Mayer, Stelios Kazantzidis, Piero Madau +3
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a ubiquitous component of the nuclei of galaxies. It is normally assumed that, following the merger of two massive galaxies, a SMBH binary will…
astro-ph2006★ 5 cited
Persistent and Transient Blank Field Sources
A. Treves, S. Campana, M. Chieregato +3
Blank field sources (BFS) are good candidates for hosting dim isolated neutron stars (DINS). The results of a search of BFS in the ROSAT HRI images are revised. We then focus on tr…
astro-ph2006★ 10 cited
Unbinned maximum-likelihood estimators for low-count data: Applications to faint X-ray spectra in the Taurus Molecular Cloud
Kaspar Arzner, Manuel Güdel, Kevin Briggs +5
Traditional binned statistics such as suffer from information loss and arbitrariness of the binning procedure. We point out that the underlying statistical quantity (the log…