The double pulsar -- A new testbed for relativistic gravity
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The first ever double pulsar, discovered by our team a few months ago, consists of two pulsars, one with period of 22 ms and the other with a period of 2.7 s. This binary system with a period of only 2.4-hr provides a truly unique laboratory for relativistic gravitational physics. In this contribution we summarize the published results and look at the prospects of future observations.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0405179,
title = {The double pulsar -- A new testbed for relativistic gravity},
author = {M. Kramer and A. G. Lyne and M. Burgay and A. Possenti and R. N. Manchester and F. Camilo and M. A. McLaughlin and D. R. Lorimer and N. D'Amico and B. C. Joshi and J. Reynolds and P. C. C. Freire},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0405179},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, two figures, to appear in "Binary Pulsars" Eds. Rasio & Stairs, PASP