BlackHoleCam is a project funded by a European Research Council Synergy Grant to build a complete astrophysical description of nearby supermassive black holes by using a combination of radio imaging, pulsar observations, stellar astrometry and general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic models. BlackHoleCam scientists are active partners of the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium. In this talk I will discuss the use of pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A* for tests of General Relativity, the current difficulties in detecting such sources, recent results from the Galactic Centre magnetar PSR J1745-2900 and how BlackHoleCam aims to search for undiscovered pulsars in the Galactic Centre.
@article{arxiv.2306.01496,
title = {BlackHoleCam -- Testing general relativity with pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A*},
author = {Ralph P. Eatough and Gregory Desvignes and Kuo Liu and Robert S. Wharton and Aristedis Noutsos and Pablo Torne and Ramesh Karuppusamy and Lijing Shao and Michael Kramer and Heino Falcke and Luciano Rezzolla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01496},
year = {2023}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, 1 - 7 July 2018