The Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar PSR 1913+16.
Abstract
The significance of the binary pulsar 1913+16 in establishing evidence for gravitational radiation emission from binary systems is described. It is pointed out that the system has enabled verification of general relativity predictions to a high level of precision.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India
- Pub Date:
- March 1995
- Bibcode:
- 1995BASI...23...77S
- Keywords:
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- binary pulsar -- PSR 1913+16;
- Binary Pulsars: Gravitational Radiation