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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

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

As a key science project of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the discovery and timing observations of radio pulsars in the Galactic Center would provide high-precision measurements of the spacetime around the supermassive black hole,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-09 Zexin Hu , Lijing Shao

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

Searching for radio pulsars orbiting around the Galactic centre black hole (BH), Sagittarius A$^\star$ (Sgr A$^\star$), represents a holy grail goal for large-area radio telescopes, in particular for the Square Kilometre Array. Follow-up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 Lijing Shao , Zexin Hu

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

Timing a pulsar orbiting around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) can provide us with a unique opportunity of testing gravity theories. We investigate the detectability of a vector charge carried by the Sgr A* black hole (BH) in the bumblebee gravity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-01 Zexin Hu , Lijing Shao , Rui Xu , Dicong Liang , Zhan-Feng Mai

Pulsars around the Massive Black Hole (MBH) in the Galactic Center (GC) are expected to be revealed by the incoming facilities (e.g., the Square Kilometre Array). Under a full relativistic framework with the pulsar approximated as a test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-04 Fupeng Zhang , Prasenjit Saha

The supermassive black hole at the Galactic center harbors a bound cluster of massive stars that should leave neutron-star remnants. Extrapolating from the available data, we estimate that 100-1000 radio pulsars may presently orbit Sgr A*…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric Pfahl , Avi Loeb

Pulsars are some of the most accurate clocks found in nature, while black holes offer a unique arena for the study of quantum gravity. As such, pulsar-black hole (PSR-BH) binaries provide ideal astrophysical systems for detecting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-27 John Estes , Michael Kavic , Matthew Lippert , John H. Simonetti

Black holes orbiting the Super Massive Black Hole (SMBH) Sgr A* in the Milky-way galaxy center (GC) generate gravitational waves. The spectrum, due to stars and black holes, is continuous below 40 nHz while individual BHs within about 200…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Alak Ray , Bence Kocsis , Simon Portegies Zwart

Some Galactic models predict a significant population of radio pulsars close to the our galactic center. Beams from these pulsars could get strongly deflected by the supermassive black hole (SMBH) believed to reside at the galactic center…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Sourabh Nampalliwar , Richard H. Price , Teviet Creighton , Fredrick A. Jenet

Pulsars, if existing and detectable in the immediate vicinity of the massive black hole (MBH) in the Galactic center (GC), may be used as a superb tool to probe both the environment and the metric of the central MBH. The recent discovery of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Fupeng Zhang , Youjun Lu , Qingjuan Yu

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

Pulsar timing arrays are sensitive to gravitational waves from supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries at orbital separations of << 1pc. There is currently an observational paucity of such systems, although they are central figures in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sarah Burke-Spolaor

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

We developed a numerical methodology to compute the fully-relativistic propagation time of photons emitted by a pulsar in orbit around a massive compact object, like the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in the Galactic Center, whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-20 Riccardo Della Monica , Ivan de Martino , Mariafelicia de Laurentis

According to some models, there may be a significant population of radio pulsars in the Galactic center. In principle, a beam from one of these pulsars could pass close to the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center, be deflected, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Kevin Stovall , Teviet Creighton , Richard H. Price , Fredrick A. Jenet

Radio timing observations of a millisecond pulsar in orbit around the Galactic centre black hole (BH) or a BH at the centre of globular clusters could answer foundational questions in astrophysics and fundamental physics. Pulsar radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-04 Tom Kimpson , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

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
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