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Mass-mass diagram illustrating current tests of general relativity with the double pulsar. Our improved measurement of pulsar B’s spin-precession rate () is given by the (mostly) vertical blue lines where the separation between them indicates the 68% uncertainty. Other individual constraints on the masses of pulsar A and B from Kramer et al. (2006, 2021a) are shown by pairs of lines. These include the periastron precession rate (
), shrinking of the orbital period due to gravitational radiation (Ṗb), gravitational redshift (γ), Shapiro delay range (r) and shape (s), and the mass-ratio (R). The shaded region is forbidden by the individual mass functions of the two pulsars (i.e. sin i ≤ 1).
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