A millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system

Nature

Volumn 505, Issue 7484, 2014, Pages 520-524

  Ransom, S M ^a   Stairs, I H ^b   Archibald, A M ^c,d   Hessels, J W T ^c,e   Kaplan, D L ^f,g   Van Kerkwijk, M H ^h   Boyles, J ^i,j   Deller, A T ^c   Chatterjee, S ^k   Schechtman Rook, A ^g   Berndsen, A ^b   Lynch, R S ^d   Lorimer, D R ⁱ   Karako Argaman, C ^d   Kaspi, V M ^d   Kondratiev, V I ^c,l   McLaughlin, M A ⁱ   Van Leeuwen, J ^c,e   Rosen, R ^a,i   Roberts, M S E ^m,n   Stovall, K ^o,p   more..

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

^l LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^m EUREKA SCIENTIFIC   (United States)

ⁿ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^o UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COSMOLOGY; GRAVITY FIELD; MASS; PRECISION; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ENERGY; EXPLOSION; GRAVITY; MASS; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOON; NEUTRON; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84892804417     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12917     Document Type: Article

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