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Bounding the mass of the graviton using binary pulsar observations

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arxiv gr-qc/0109049 v2 pith:UZXPAWC3 submitted 2001-09-13 gr-qc astro-phhep-th

Bounding the mass of the graviton using binary pulsar observations

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The close agreement between the predictions of dynamical general relativity for the radiated power of a compact binary system and the observed orbital decay of the binary pulsars PSR B1913+16 and PSR B1534+12 allows us to bound the graviton mass to be less than 7.6 x 10^{-20} eV with 90% confidence. This bound is the first to be obtained from dynamic, as opposed to static-field, relativity. The resulting limit on the graviton mass is within two orders of magnitude of that from solar system measurements, and can be expected to improve with further observations.

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