Strong-Field Tests of Gravity Using Pulsars and Black Holes

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dc.creatorKramer, M.
dc.creatorBacker, D. C.
dc.creatorCordes, J. M.
dc.creatorLazio, T. J. W.
dc.creatorStappers, B. W.
dc.creatorJohnston, S.
dc.date2004-09-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:02:32Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:02:32Z
dc.descriptionThe sensitivity of the SKA enables a number of tests of theories of gravity. A Galactic Census of pulsars will discover most of the active pulsars in the Galaxy beamed toward us. In this census will almost certainly be pulsar-black hole binaries as well as pulsars orbiting the super-massive black hole in the Galactic centre. These systems are unique in their capability to probe the ultra-strong field limit of relativistic gravity. These measurements can be used to test the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture and the No-Hair theorem. The large number of millisecond pulsars discovered with the SKA will also provide 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.descriptionSKA-Key Science Project, to appear in "Science with the Square Kilometer Array," eds.C. Carilli and S. Rawlings, New Astronomy Reviews (Elsevier: Amsterdam)', 10 pages, 2 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409379
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409379
dc.identifierNew Astron.Rev.48:993-1002,2004; PoS MRU:020,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.newar.2004.09.020
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/226479
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleStrong-Field Tests of Gravity Using Pulsars and Black Holes
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