Double pulsar

See also: Pulsar (homonymy)

In Astronomy, the term of pulsar doubles refers to a Binary system whose two components are detected as a Pulsar S. the first (and to date, 2006, only) known double pulsar is PSR J0737-3039 which is incidentally also to be the binary system of which the orbit is tightened known, which makes an ideal laboratory of it to carry out tests of the General relativity, and this more especially as its orbital Plan is almost parallel to the direction of observation, which in fact a system with eclipses.

The term of pulsar doubles should not be confused with that of binary Pulsar, of which only one of the two components is identified as being a pulsar (the other being able to be a pulsar, but whose beam does not sweep the terrestrial orbit, as it is the case for PSR 1913+16).

See too

  • PSR binary J0737-3039
  • Pulsar

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