Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-04-07
Phys.Rev.D77:124017,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 2 figures, To Appear in Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.124017
Pulsars in close binary orbit around another neutron star or a massive white dwarf make ideal laboratories for testing the predictions of gravitational radiation and self-gravitational effects. We report new timing measurements of the pulsar-white-dwarf binary PSR J1141-6545, providing strong evidence that such asymmetric systems have gravitational wave losses that are consistent with general relativity. The orbit is found to be decaying at a rate of $1.04\pm0.06$ times the general relativistic prediction and the Shapiro delay is consistent with the orbital inclination angle derived from scintillation measurements. The system provides a unique test-bed for tensor-scalar theories of gravity; our current measurements place stringent constraints in the theory space, with a limit of $\alpha_0^2 < 2.1 \times 10^{-5}$ for weakly non-linear coupling and an asymptotic limit of $\alpha_0^2 < 3.4 \times 10^{-6}$ for strongly non-linear coupling, where $\alpha_0$ is the linear coupling strength of matter to an underlying scalar field. This asymptotic limit is nearly three times smaller than the Cassini bound ($\alpha_0^2 \approx 10^{-5}$).
Bailes Matthew
Ramesh Bhat N. D.
Verbiest Joris P. W.
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