Joseph Hooton Taylor1978
Taylor and Joel Weisberg report that the orbit of PSR B1913+16 is shrinking at the rate expected when the binary loses energy through gravitational radiation.
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Taylor and Joel Weisberg report that the orbit of PSR B1913+16 is shrinking at the rate expected when the binary loses energy through gravitational radiation.
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