Fundamental Physics with the SKA:Strong-Field Tests of Gravity Using Pulsars and Black Holes
| dc.creator | Kramer, M. | |
| dc.date | 2004-09-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:14:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:14:26Z | |
| dc.description | The Square-Kilometre-Array (SKA) will be a radio telescope with a collecting area that will exceed that of existing telescopes by a factor of a hundred or so. This contribution summarises one of the key-science projects selected for the SKA. The sensitivity of the SKA allows us to perform a Galactic Census of pulsars which will discover a large fraction of active pulsars beamed to us, including the long-sought for pulsar-black hole systems. These systems are unique in their capability to probe the ultra-strong field limit of relativistic gravity. By using pulsar timing we can determine the properties of stellar and massive black holes, thereby testing the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture and the No-Hair theorem. The large number of millisecond pulsars discovered with the SKA will also provide us with a dense array of precision clocks on the sky. These clocks will act as the multiple arms of a huge gravitational wave detector, which can be used to detect and measure the stochastic cosmological gravitational wave background that is expected from a number of sources. | |
| dc.description | Talk presented at 'Exploring the Cosmic Frontier - Astrophysical Instrument for the 21st Century', to be published in Springer series "ESO Astrophysics Symposia", 4 pages, 1 figure | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409020 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409020 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/8110 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Fundamental Physics with the SKA:Strong-Field Tests of Gravity Using Pulsars and Black Holes | |
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