Observations of Post-Newtonian Timing Effects in the Binary Pulsar PSR 1913+16
- 9 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 52 (15), 1348-1350
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.52.1348
Abstract
We report the latest results of timing measurements of the binary pulsar PSR 1913+16. Recent high-quality data have enabled us to measure the excess propagation delay of the pulsar signal caused by the gravitational field of the companion star; this result provides strong additional support for the simplest and most straightforward model of the system. The observed rate of orbital period decay is equal to 1.00 ± 0.04 times that expected from gravitational radiation damping.Keywords
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