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Binary pulsars and tests of general relativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2010

I. H. Stairs
I. H. Stairs*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, B. C., V6T 1Z1, Canada, and Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Mail 39, P. O. Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia email: stairs@astro.ubc.ca
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Binary pulsars are a valuable laboratory for gravitational experiments. Double-neutron-star systems such as the double pulsar provide the most stringent tests of strong-field gravity available to date, while pulsars with white-dwarf companions constrain departures from general relativity based on the difference in gravitational binding energies in the two stars. Future observations may open up entirely new tests of the predictions of general relativity.

Keywords

pulsars: generalpulsars:individual (J0737-3039A/B)gravitation
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S261: Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis , April 2009 , pp. 218 - 227
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