The relativistic pulsar-white dwarf binary PSR J1738+0333 - II. The most stringent test of scalar-tensor gravity

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 423, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3328-3343

  Freire, Paulo C C ^a   Wex, Norbert ^a   Esposito Farèse, Gilles ^b,g,h   Verbiest, Joris P W ^a   Bailes, Matthew ^c   Jacoby, Bryan A ^d   Kramer, Michael ^a,e   Stairs, Ingrid H ^f   Antoniadis, John ^a   Janssen, Gemma H ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g Universities of Bonn   (Germany)

^h NONE

Author keywords

Gravitation; Gravitational waves

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; PULSARS; RELATIVITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WHITE DWARFS;

DWARF BINARIES; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EMISSION; LOW-MASS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MOST STRINGENT TESTS; ORBITAL DECAY; PULSE TIME; RELATIVISTICS; THEORY OF GRAVITY; UNCERTAINTY;

TENSORS;

EID: 84863608326     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21253.x     Document Type: Article

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