Table 2: Historic pulsar periods, corrected for binary doppler shift. The errors given for the corrected periods are taken from the errors given for the observed periods (except for the value markeda).
Date Obs. period Corr. period Orb. phase Instrument Reference
[MJD] [s] [s]      
43 755.2 38.218 38.2393 (40) 0.34 HEAO A-2 White & Pravdo (1979)
44 110.2 38.019 38.0424 (90) 0.32 Einstein MPC Parmar et al. (1980)
45 535 37.885 37.8671 (90)a 0.69 Tenma GSPC Nagase et al. (1984)
47 237.5 37.747 37.7289 (10) 0.63 Ginga LAC Kamata et al. (1990)
47 258.5 37.725 37.7058 (10) 0.64 Ginga LAC Kamata et al. (1990)
47 589.5 37.713 37.7355 (30) 0.32 Ginga LAC Kamata et al. (1990)
47 977 37.853 37.8652 (200) 0.41 SIGMA Mereghetti et al. (1991)
48 305 37.7897 37.7621 (3) 0.81 ART-P Sunyaev et al. (1991)
48 490 37.6726 37.6707 (15) 0.51 SIGMA Sunyaev et al. (1991)
50 683.954   37.347411 (6)b   RXTE Baykal (2000)
50 708.5 37.39 37.3649 (100) 0.85 ASCA Audley et al. (2006)
51 950.84 37.329 37.3019 (200) 0.75 Chandra HETGS/ACIS-S Chakrabarty et al. (2002)
a Averaged over 5 days, resulting in an increased error; b published value already corrected
for binary motion, $\dot{P}=+(4.56\pm 0.13)\times 10^{-9}$ s s-1.

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