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astro-ph2003★ 16 cited
Electromagnetic signals from planetary collisions
Bing Zhang, Steinn Sigurdsson
Planet-planet collisions are expected during the early stages of the formation of extra-solar planets, and are also possible in mature planetary systems through secular planet-plan…
astro-ph2003★ 4 cited
Black Holes and Pulsar Binaries
Steinn Sigurdsson
Stellar mass black holes are formed in the field, and are observed in binaries. Population synthesis estimates for the formation of BH-PSR binaries suggest these may be observed, b…
astro-ph2000★ 63 cited
Models of Cuspy Triaxial Galaxies
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, J. Christopher Mihos, Steinn Sigurdsson +1
We construct numerical models of mildly triaxial elliptical galaxies with central density cusps. Using a technique we call ``adiabatic squeezing'', we begin with a spherical gamma=…