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Distances to Binary Pulsars and Implications for Tests of General Relativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J. F. Bell  and
M. Bailes
J. F. Bell
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, NRAL, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 9DL, UK. email:jb@jb.man.ac.uk
M. Bailes
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia email: mbailes@physics.unimelb.edu.au

Abstract

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We propose a new way to measure accurate distances and transverse velocities for some nearby binary pulsars. In many cases the distances will be more accurately determined than is possible by annual parallax, as the relative error decreases as t−5/2. We also note that tests of the general relativistic prediction of orbital period decay of nearby relativistic binary pulsars will be limited to accuracies of a few percent. Nevertheless, PSR B1534+12 observations are consistent with general relativistic predictions if the proper-motion contribution to the orbital period derivative is accounted for.

Type
Part 7 Binary Systems
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 160: Pulsars: Problems and Progress , 1996 , pp. 513 - 516
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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