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The Viewpoint from Commission 40

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Richard N. Manchester*
Affiliation:
CSIRO, Australian National Telescope Facility, Sydney, Australia

Abstract

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Although Very Long Baseline Interferometry has resolved a few binary stellar systems, pulsars provide the main source of binary and multiple stars through radio astronomy techniques. There are about 85 binary pulsars and two multiple systems known. Currently there is no formal system of designating these companions.

Type
II. Special Scientific Sessions
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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