Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-01-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
The five accreting, millisecond X-ray pulsars in ultracompact binaries that were recently discovered with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer provide excellent candidates for constraining the deviations from general relativity described by the Brans-Dicke parameter omega_BD. I calculate the expected rate of change of the orbital periods of these binaries and discuss the prospects of constraining omega_BD to values that are an order of magnitude larger than current constraints. Finally, I show how measurements of the orbital period derivative in ultracompact binaries can be used to place lower bounds on their orbital inclination.
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