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A millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system

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Ransom, S. M., Stairs, I. H., Archibald, A. M., Hessels, J. W. T., Kaplan, D. L., van Kerkwijk, M. H., Boyles, J., Deller, A. T., Chatterjee, S., Schechtman-Rook, A., Berndsen, A., Lynch, R. S., Lorimer, D. R., Karako-Argaman, C., Kaspi, V. M., Kondratiev, V. I., McLaughlin, M. A., van Leeuwen, J., Rosen, R., Roberts, M. S. E., Stovall, K.·2014·Nature
DOI 10.1038/nature12917
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Gravitationally bound three-body systems have been studied for hundreds of years and are common in our Galaxy. They show complex orbital interactions, which can constrain the compositions, masses and interior structures of the bodies and test theories of gravity, if sufficiently precise measurements are available. A triple system containing a radio pulsar could provide such measurements, but the only previously known such system, PSR B1620-26 (refs 7, 8; with a millisecond pulsar, a white dwarf, and a planetary-mass object in an orbit of several decades), shows only weak interactions. Here we report precision timing and multiwavelength observations of PSR J0337+1715, a millisecond pulsar in a hierarchical triple system with two other stars. Strong gravitational interactions are apparent and provide the masses of the pulsar (1.4378(13), where is the solar mass and the parentheses contain the uncertainty in the final decimal places) and the two white dwarf companions (0.19751(15) and 0.4101(3)), as well as the inclinations of the orbits (both about 39.2°). The unexpectedly coplanar and nearly circular orbits indicate a complex and exotic evolutionary past that differs from those of known stellar systems. The gravitational field of the outer white dwarf strongly accelerates the inner binary containing the neutron star, and the system will thus provide an ideal laboratory in which to test the strong equivalence principle of general relativity.

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Ransom, S. M., Stairs, I. H., Archibald, A. M., Hessels, J. W. T., Kaplan, D. L., van Kerkwijk, M. H., Boyles, J., Deller, A. T., Chatterjee, S., Schechtman-Rook, A., Berndsen, A., Lynch, R. S., Lorimer, D. R., Karako-Argaman, C., Kaspi, V. M., Kondratiev, V. I., McLaughlin, M. A., van Leeuwen, J., Rosen, R., Roberts, M. S. E., & Stovall, K.
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Nature
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2014-01
Volume
505
Issue
7484
Pages
520-524
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
DOI
10.1038/nature12917
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324
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41
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18.19
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en
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Ransom, S. M., Stairs, I. H., Archibald, A. M., Hessels, J. W. T., Kaplan, D. L., van Kerkwijk, M. H., Boyles, J., Deller, A. T., Chatterjee, S., Schechtman-Rook, A., Berndsen, A., Lynch, R. S., Lorimer, D. R., Karako-Argaman, C., Kaspi, V. M., Kondratiev, V. I., McLaughlin, M. A., van Leeuwen, J., Rosen, R., . . . Stovall, K. (2014). A millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12917

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