Prospects for Constraining the Yukawa Gravity with Pulsars around Sagittarius A*
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2022-11-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The discovery of radio pulsars (PSRs) around the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in our Galactic Center (GC), Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), will have significant implications for tests of gravity. In this paper, we predict restrictions on the parameters of the Yukawa gravity by timing a pulsar around Sgr A* with a variety of orbital parameters. Based on a realistic timing accuracy of the times of arrival (TOAs), , and using a number of 960 TOAs in a 20-yr observation, our numerical simulations show that the PSR-SMBH system will improve current tests of the Yukawa gravity when the range of the Yukawa interaction varies between -, and it can limit the graviton mass to be .
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@article{arxiv.2210.16130,
title = {Prospects for Constraining the Yukawa Gravity with Pulsars around Sagittarius A*},
author = {Yiming Dong and Lijing Shao and Zexin Hu and Xueli Miao and Ziming Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.16130},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
17 pages, 5 figures; accepted by JCAP