Constraints on Massive-Graviton dark matter from pulsar timing and precision astrometry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 26, 2008, Pages

  Pshirkov, Maxim ^a   Tuntsov, Artem ^b   Postnov, Konstantin A ^b  

^a LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

ASTROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; DARK MATTERS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; LORENTZ; MASSIVE GRAVITONS; MILLISECOND PULSARS; STRINGENT CONSTRAINTS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 58149242484     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.261101     Document Type: Article

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