Pulsar timing and its applications
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2018-01-16 v1
Abstract
Pulsars are remarkably precise "celestial clocks" that can be used to explore many different aspects of physics and astrophysics. In this article I give a brief summary of pulsar properties and describe some of the applications of pulsar timing, including tests of theories of gravitation, efforts to detect low-frequency gravitational waves using pulsar timing arrays and establishment a "pulsar timescale".
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.04318,
title = {Pulsar timing and its applications},
author = {R N Manchester},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.04318},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Presented at Physics of Neutron Stars - 2017. 50 years after, Saint Petersburg, July 2017, J. Physics Conf. Ser., 932, 012002