10.4225/08/51FF8A4C48CCB
Burgay, Marta
Marta
Burgay
Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (INAF), Italy
Possenti, Andrea
Andrea
Possenti
Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (INAF), Italy
Manchester, Dick
Dick
Manchester
CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility, Australia
Kramer, Michael
Michael
Kramer
Max Planck Inst. fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
Lyne, A
A
Lyne
Jodrell Bank, UK
McLaughlin, Maura
Maura
McLaughlin
West Virginia University, United States
D'Amico, Nichi
Nichi
D'Amico
Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (INAF), Italy
Stairs, Ingrid
Ingrid
Stairs
University of British Colombia, Canada
Ferdman, Rob
Rob
Ferdman
University of British Colombia, Canada
Lorimer, Duncan Ross
Duncan Ross
Lorimer
West Virginia University, United States
Parkes observations for project P455 semester 2009APRS
CSIRO
2011
Dataset
2011
10.4225/08/51ff8a4c48ccb
This project is to continue timing and profile monitoring of the first
double-pulsar system and two other relativistic binaries discovered in
our surveys. These systems provide unique laboratories for
gravitational physics. In addition to the
double pulsar we want to continue our studies of the double neutron
star PSR J1756-2251, and the relativistic binary J1141-6545. We
aim to provide the strongest tests to date for general relativity and
to measure for the first time the moment-of-inertia of a neutron star.
Additionally, we will determine the system geometries and map the
pulsar beams via geodetic precession.