An increased estimate of the merger rate of double neutron stars from observations of a highly relativistic system

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6966, 2003, Pages 531-533

  Burgay, M ^a   D'Amico, N ^b,c   Possenti, A ^c,d   Manchester, R N ^e   Lyne, A G ^f   Joshi, B C ^f,g   McLaughlin, M A ^f   Kramer, M ^f   Sarkissian, J M ^e   Camilo, F ^h   Kalogera, V ⁱ   Kim, C ⁱ   Lorimer, D R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL CENTRE FOR RADIO ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^h Columbia University ^*  (United States)

ⁱ NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; GALAXIES; GRAVITY WAVES; RELATIVITY;

BINARY SYSTEMS;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTROPHYSICS;

AGE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GRAVITY; LUMINANCE; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; TIME;

EID: 0348017154     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02124     Document Type: Article

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