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Binary Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Joseph H. Taylor
Joseph H. Taylor*
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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There are now three radio frequency pulsars known to be in binary systems: PSRs 1913+16, 0820+02, and 0655+64. The first of these, discovered in 1974, moves in a tight, highly eccentric orbit with a period of approximately 7h 45m. Its companion has not yet been identified with certainty, but must be a compact object of mass comparable to that of the pulsar. PSRs 0820+02 and 0655+64, recognized as binaries during the past fifteen months, have nearly circular orbits with periods of over three years and about one day, respectively. All three objects are of great interest for the opportunity they provide to measure the masses of neutron stars. In addition, the first has proven to be a useful probe of gravitational theories, and the study of all of them should yield important information concerning the evolution of binary systems and the formation of neutron stars.

Type
VIII. Neutron Stars in Binary Systems
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 95: Pulsars , 1981 , pp. 361 - 369
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981 

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