Discovery of three wide-orbit binary pulsars: Implications for binary evolution and equivalence principles

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 632, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 1060-1068

  Stairs, I H ^a   Faulkner, A J ^b   Lyne, A G ^b   Kramer, M ^b   Lorimer, D R ^b   McLaughlin, M A ^b   Manchester, R N ^c   Hobbs, G B ^c   Camilo, F ^d   Possenti, A ^e   Burgay, M ^e   D'Amico, N ^e,f   Freire, P C ^g   Gregory, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^g Arecibo Observatory   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Pulsars: individual (PSRJ1751 2857, PSRJ1853+1303, PSRJ1910+1256); Relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444457000     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432526     Document Type: Article

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