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Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing
by: Ingrid H. Stairs
Pulsars of very different types, including isolated objects and binaries (with short- and long-period orbits, and white-dwarf and neutron-star companions) provide the means to test both the predictions of general relativity and the viability of alternate theories of gravity. This article presents an overview of pulsars, then discusses the current status of and future prospects for tests of equivalence-principle violations and strong-field gravitational experiments.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
In: Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing,
sec. 4.6 Spin-orbit coupling and geodetic precession,
eq (39) seems to have the wrong units.
Comparing to:
Lattimer & prakash astro-ph/0612440 (2006),
sec. VII. E. eq 73, 75
yealds that the equations coincide if T_solar is replaced with
(T_solar/M_solar), and the units then are ok too.