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Mar 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995aas...186.4803n&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 186th AAS Meeting, #48.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 27, p.879
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We have made timing observations of newly discovered binary pulsar PSR J1518+4904 over a span of five months using the 140ft telescope of NRAO/Green Bank at frequencies between 320 and 800 MHz. Typical precision of a pulse time of arrival is 15 mu s in a 1 hour integration (using a 40 MHz passband at 370 or 575 MHz). The timing data were reduced using standard techniques, and they fit well to a standard model of neutron star and orbital behavior. The pulse period is 40.934 ms, and the period derivative is at most 10(-18) , implying an age of at least 600 Myr and a surface magnetic field no stronger than 6*E(9) Gauss. The pulsar is in an 8.6 day, eccentric (e=0.249) orbit, with semi-major axis 0.040 AU. Orbital precession of 0.0110+/-0.0008 deg/yr (2sigma uncertainty) has been detected. This implies a total system mass of 2.6+/-0.3 M_sun. The masses of the pulsar and companion (quite possibly another neutron star) cannot be fully separated. However, the system mass, combined with other orbital parameters, implies a pulsar mass of at most 1.9 M_sun and a companion mass of at least 0.9 M_sun. Precision of the precession measurement increases at least linearly with the length of the data series, so further observations of this system will provide a better measure of the total system mass. It is unlikely that the estimates of the individual component masses will improve.
Nice David J.
Sayer Ronald Winston
Taylor Joseph H. Jr.
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