SECULAR EVOLUTION OF THE PULSAR TRIPLE SYSTEM J0337+1715
SECULAR EVOLUTION OF THE PULSAR TRIPLE SYSTEM J0337+1715
The pulsar triple system J0337+1715 is remarkably regular and highly hierarchical. Secular interactions transfer angular momentum between inner and outer orbits unless their apsidal lines are parallel or anti-parallel. These choices correspond to orthogonal eigenmodes p and are characterized by ep, 1/ep, 2 ∼ a1/a2 and ea, 1/ea, 2 ∼ …