High-precision timing of five millisecond pulsars: Space velocities, binary evolution, and equivalence principles

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 743, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Gonzalez, M E ^a   Stairs, I H ^a   Ferdman, R D ^b   Freire, P C C ^c   Nice, D J ^d   Demorest, P B ^e   Ransom, S M ^e   Kramer, M ^c   Camilo, F ^f   Hobbs, G ^g   Manchester, R N ^g   Lyne, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

binaries: close; proper motions; pulsars: general; relativistic processes; stars: neutron

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455171613     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/743/2/102     Document Type: Article

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