Testing gravity with pulsar scintillation measurements
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Huan Yang, Atsushi Nishizawa, and Ue-Li Pen Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L2Y5, Canada Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA Theoretical Astrophysics 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S3H8, Canada CIFAR Program in Gravitation and Cosmology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 180 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, AB 120-50 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada (Received 9 July 2016; published 26 April 2017)
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