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Confirmation of Earth-Mass Planets Orbiting the Millisecond Pulsar PSR B1257 + 12
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The discovery of two Earth-mass planets orbiting an old (∼10 9 years), rapidly spinning neutron star, the 6.2-millisecond radio pulsar PSR B1257+12, was announced in early 1992. It was soon pointed out that the approximately 3:2 ratio of the planets' orbital periods should lead to accurately predictable and possibly measurable gravitational perturbations of their orbits. The unambiguous detection of this effect, after 3 years of systematic timing observations of PSR B1257+12 with the 305-meter Arecibo radiotelescope, as well as the discovery of another, moon-mass object in orbit around the pulsar, constitutes irrefutable evidence that the first planetary system around a star other than the sun has been identified.
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- Authors
- Wolszczan, A.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1994-04-22
- Volume
- 264
- Issue
- 5158
- Pages
- 538-542
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2001010481
- Cited by
- 379
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 27.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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