In general relativity, the equations describing the PK
parameters in terms of the stellar masses are (see [33,
133
,
43
]):
where
,
and
. Other theories of gravity, such as those with one or more
scalar parameters in addition to a tensor component, will have
somewhat different mass dependencies for these parameters. Some
specific examples will be discussed in Section
4.4
below.
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Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing
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