Relativistic Gravity and Binary Radio Pulsars
摘要
Following a summary of the basic principles of pulsar timing, we present a review of recent results from timing observations of relativistic binary pulsars. In particular, we summarize the status of timing observations of the much celebrated original binary pulsar PSR B1913+16, draw attention to the recent confirmation of strong evidence for geodetic precession in this system, review the recent measurement of multiple post-Keplerian binary parameters for PSR B1534+12, and describe the Parkes Multibeam survey, a major survey of the Galactic Plane which promises to discover new relativistic binary pulsar systems.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9912285,
title = {Relativistic Gravity and Binary Radio Pulsars},
author = {V. M. Kaspi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9912285},
year = {2009}
}
备注
12 pages, 3 EPS figures, proceedings of 8th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics, held June 1999, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada