Secular Evolution of the Eccentricity in the PSR 1620-26 Triple System
| dc.creator | Rasio, F. A. | |
| dc.date | 1994-06-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:19:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:19:13Z | |
| dc.description | A simple analytic calculation is presented for the secular evolution of the eccentricities in a hierarchical triple system such as the one containing the millisecond pulsar PSR 1620-26 in M4. If the second companion of PSR 1620-26 is of stellar mass ($m_2\ga0.1\,M_\odot$), an eccentricity as large as that observed today for the inner binary ($e_1\simeq0.03$) could very well have been induced by secular perturbations. In contrast, such a large eccentricity cannot be induced by a second companion of planetary mass. | |
| dc.description | to appear in Millisecond Pulsars: the Decade of Surprises, ed. A. S. Fruchter, M. Tavani, and D. Backer (ASP Conf. Series), uuencoded compressed postscript, 5 pages, IAS-AST-94-25 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9406022 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9406022 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/9780 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Secular Evolution of the Eccentricity in the PSR 1620-26 Triple System | |
| dc.type | text |