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The anticipated discovery of a pulsar in orbit with a black hole is expected to provide a unique laboratory for black hole physics and gravity. In this context, the next generation of radio telescopes, like the Five-hundred-metre Aperture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 K. Liu , R. P. Eatough , N. Wex , M. Kramer

The discovery of a pulsar (PSR) in orbit around a black hole (BH) is expected to provide a superb new probe of relativistic gravity and BH properties. Apart from a precise mass measurement for the BH, one could expect a clean verification…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Wex , K. Liu , R. P. Eatough , M. Kramer , J. M. Cordes , T. J. W. Lazio

The detection of a pulsar (PSR) in a tight, relativistic orbit around a supermassive or intermediate mass black hole - such as those in the Galactic centre or in the centre of Globular clusters - would allow for precision tests of general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-09 Tom Kimpson , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

Timing observation of pulsars orbiting around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can measure the spacetime around the SMBH to a high precision and thus be a novel probe of the gravity theory. Future high-frequency surveys of the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Zexin Hu , Ziming Wang , Lijing Shao

Pulsar timing is a promising technique for detecting low frequency sources of gravitational waves. Historically the focus has been on the detection of diffuse stochastic backgrounds, such as those formed from the superposition of weak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-18 Vincent Corbin , Neil J. Cornish

Binary pulsars allow us to carry out precision tests of gravity and have placed stringent bounds on a broad class of theories beyond general relativity. Current and future radio telescopes, such as FAST, SKA, and MeerKAT, may find a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-24 Brian C. Seymour , Kent Yagi

We present a study of the gravitational time delay of arrival of signals from binary pulsar systems with rotating black hole companions. In particular, we investigate the strength of this effect (Shapiro delay) as a function of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pablo Laguna , Alex Wolszczan

The discovery of radio pulsars in compact orbits around Sgr A* would allow an unprecedented and detailed investigation of the spacetime of the supermassive black hole. This paper shows that pulsar timing, including that of a single pulsar,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 K. Liu , N. Wex , M. Kramer , J. M. Cordes , T. J. W. Lazio

We propose to use pulsar-black hole binaries as a probe of gravitational collider physics. Induced by the gravitation of the pulsar, the atomic transitions of the boson cloud around the black hole back-react on the orbital motion. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Qianhang Ding , Xi Tong , Yi Wang

Pulsar Timing Arrays are a prime tool to study unexplored astrophysical regimes with gravitational waves. Here we show that the detection of gravitational radiation from individually resolvable super-massive black hole binary systems can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-24 C. M. F. Mingarelli , K. Grover , T. Sidery , R. J. E. Smith , A. Vecchio

Pulsar timing measurements can be used to detect gravitational radiation from massive black hole binaries. The ~106d quasi-periodic flux variations in Sagittarius A* at radio wavelengths reported by Zhao, Bower, & Goss (2001) may be due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrea N. Lommen , Donald C. Backer

Pulsar timing observations are used to place constraints on the rate of coalescence of supermassive black-hole (SMBH) binaries as a function of mass and redshift. In contrast to the indirect constraints obtained from other techniques,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Z. L. Wen , F. A. Jenet , D. Yardley , G. B. Hobbs , R. N. Manchester

The discovery and timing of radio pulsars within the Galactic centre is a fundamental aspect of the SKA Science Case, responding to the topic of "Strong Field Tests of Gravity with Pulsars and Black Holes" (Kramer et al. 2004; Cordes et al.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-05 R. P. Eatough , T. J. W. Lazio , J. Casanellas , S. Chatterjee , J. M. Cordes , P. B. Demorest , M. Kramer , K. J. Lee , K. Liu , S. M. Ransom , N. Wex

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Yiming Dong , Lijing Shao , Zexin Hu , Xueli Miao , Ziming Wang

Future observations with next-generation large-area radio telescopes are expected to discover radio pulsars (PSRs) closely orbiting around Sagittarius~A* (Sgr~A*), the supermassive black hole (SMBH) dwelling at our Galactic Center (GC).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 Zexin Hu , Lijing Shao , Fupeng Zhang

Binaries consisting of a pulsar and a black hole (BH) are a holy grail of astrophysics, both for their significance for stellar evolution and for their potential application as probes of strong gravity. In spite of extensive surveys of our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere , Abraham Loeb

By monitoring the times of arrival of radio pulses from millisecond pulsars, Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) serve as unique gravitational wave (GW) laboratories in the nanohertz band. To date, the primary astrophysical sources of GWs targeted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-24 Hippolyte Quelquejay Leclere

The observation of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is one of the goals of gravitational wave astronomy in the coming years. Massive (>10^8 solar masses) and low-redshift (< 1.5) sources are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 Alberto Sesana , Alberto Vecchio

To date, the most precise tests of general relativity have been achieved through pulsar timing, albeit in the weak-field regime. Since pulsars are some of the most precise and stable "clocks" in the Universe, present observational efforts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-27 Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Ziri Younsi , Oliver Porth , Yosuke Mizuno , Luciano Rezzolla

We present a comprehensive framework for predicting the detection prospects of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) by future gravitational wave (GW) observatories, examining both space-borne detectors (LISA, Taiji, TianQin) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-09 Katsunori Kusakabe , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Daisuke Toyouchi , Keitaro Takahashi
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