Discovered by one of its namesakes at Arecibo, for ten points, identify this doubly-eponymous object, the first binary pulsar to be discovered, which won its namesakes the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.
In 2004, one of the discoverers of this object wrote a paper with Weisberg in which they confirmed that this object had a geodetic precession period of about 300 years. That paper also gave an improved measurement of a certain quantity to be 2.4056 times 10 to the minus 12 power seconds per second, and this objects discovery aided in the confirmation of predictions made by Peters and Matthews in 1963. This celestial object, which has the designation PSR B1913+16, has been in continuous observation since 1974, and it has been used to measure three post-Keplerian parameters: the Einstein timing, the rate of periastron advance, and the rate of change of orbital period. This last measurement taken from this object represents energy being lost to gravitational radiation and is one of the best current tests of general relativity. Discovered by one of its namesakes at Arecibo, for ten points, identify this doubly-eponymous object, the first binary pulsar to be discovered, which won its namesakes the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.
In 2004, one of the discoverers of this object wrote a paper with Weisberg in which they confirmed that this object had a geodetic precession period of about 300 years.
{Hulse}-{Taylor} binary pulsar [accept its {catalog designation} if {someone actually gives} it but they {won't}]