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| Paper: |
Binary Pulsars, General Relativity and Light-Time Effects |
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335, The Light-Time Effect in Astrophysics: Causes and Cures of the O - C diagram |
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215 |
| Authors: |
Sterken, C. |
| Abstract: |
Binary pulsars are extremely stable and most accurate clocks in orbit. They allow the determination of neutron-star masses and provide excellent tests for general relativity theories. This paper reviews aspects of pulsar O – C analysis and compares with O – C applications in classic stellar astrophysics. Pulsar studies are a school example of how, through increasing accuracy in the observational O term, the associated calculated C term leads to increasingly complex theoretical formalisms in the O – C investigation. |
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