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  keywords = {Accretion disks, Black holes},
  pages    = {1040--1052},
  title    = {Oscillations of vertically integrated relativistic tori -- II. Axisymmetric modes in a Kerr space-time},
  volume   = {354},
  year     = {2004}
}