This first ever double pulsar system consists of two pulsars orbiting the common center of mass in a slightly eccentric orbit of only 2.4-hr duration. The pair of pulsars with pulse periods of 22 ms and 2.8 sec,respectively, confirms the long-proposed recycling theory for millisecond pulsars and provides an exciting opportunity to study the works of pulsar magnetospheres by a very fortunate geometrical alignment of the orbit relative to our line-of-sight. In particular, this binary system represents a truly unique laboratory for relativistic gravitational physics.
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Kramer, M. (2007). Strong-Field Tests of Gravity with the Double Pulsar. In: Aschenbach, B., Burwitz, V., Hasinger, G., Leibundgut, B. (eds) Relativistic Astrophysics Legacy and Cosmology – Einstein’s. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74713-0_19
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