MEASUREMENTS OF GENERAL RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS IN THE BINARY PULSAR PSR1913+16

被引:321
作者
TAYLOR, JH
FOWLER, LA
MCCULLOCH, PM
机构
[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
[2] Physics Department, University of Tasmania, Hobart
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D O I
10.1038/277437a0
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Measurements of second- and third-order relativistic effects in the orbit of binary pulsar PSR1913 + 16 have yielded self-consistent estimates of the masses of the pulsar and its companion, quantitative confirmation of the existence of gravitational radiation at the level predicted by general relativity, and detection of geodetic precession of the pulsar spin axis. © 1979 Nature Publishing Group.
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