Probing gravitation with pulsars
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-06-12 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Radio pulsars are fascinating and extremely useful objects. Despite our on-going difficulties in understanding the details of their emission physics, they can be used as precise cosmic clocks in a wide-range of experiments -- in particular for probing gravitational physics. While the reader should consult the contributions to these proceedings to learn more about this exciting field of discovering, exploiting and understanding pulsars, we will concentrate here on on the usage of pulsars as gravity labs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1211.2457,
title = {Probing gravitation with pulsars},
author = {Michael Kramer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2457},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Proceedings of IAUS 291 "Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years", J. van Leeuwen (ed.); 8 pages