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Title: Wide nutation: binary black-hole spins repeatedly oscillating from full alignment to full anti-alignment
Award ID(s):
1841358 1707965 1841464
PAR ID:
10092072
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Volume:
36
Issue:
10
ISSN:
0264-9381
Page Range / eLocation ID:
105003
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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