A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7319, 2010, Pages 1081-1083

  Demorest, P B ^a   Pennucci, T ^b   Ransom, S M ^a   Roberts, M S E ^c   Hessels, J W T ^d,e  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c EUREKA SCIENTIFIC   (United States)

^d ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; LIGHT EFFECT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLAR RADIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BOSON; CALCULATION; LIGHT; MASS; NEUTRON; PHYSICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARK; SHAPIRO DELAY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 78049372182     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09466     Document Type: Article

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