Bounding the graviton mass with binary pulsar observations

Patrick J. Sutton; Lee Samuel Finn

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/19/7/318

Bounding the graviton mass with binary pulsar observations

Patrick J. Sutton, Lee Samuel Finn

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By comparing the observed orbital decay of the binary pulsars PSR B1913+16 and PSR B1534+12 to that predicted by general relativity due to gravitational-wave emission, we are able to bound the mass of the graviton to be less than 7.6 × 10^-20 eV/c² at 90% confidence. This is the first such bound to be derived from dynamic gravitational fields. It is approximately two orders of magnitude weaker than the static-field bound from solar system observations, and will improve with further observations.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1355-1360
Number of pages	6
Journal	Classical and Quantum Gravity
Volume	19
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/19/7/318
State	Published - Apr 7 2002

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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