I describe a unique, 20-year-long timing program for the binary pulsar B0655+64, the stalwart control experiment for measurements of gravitational radiation damping in relativistic neutron-star binaries. Observed limits on evolution of the B0655+64 orbit provide new bounds on the existence of dipolar gravitational radiation, and hence on violation of the Strong Equivalence Principle.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0212180,
title = {Improved Bounds on Violation of the Strong Equivalence Principle},
author = {Z. Arzoumanian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0212180},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in proceedings: "Radio Pulsars," Chania, Crete, August 2002 (ASP conference series)