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Gravity Tests with Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

Michael Kramer
Michael Kramer*
Affiliation:
MPI für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany email: mkramer@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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Abstract

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Fifty years of pulsars also mean fifty years of using them as tools to probe other phenomena and physics. One prominent example is the usage of pulsars to test theories of gravity. Probing the quasi-stationary strong-field regime, pulsars allow high precision tests that will maintain their importance even in the era of gravitation wave observations with ground-based detectors. This contribution summarise the methods and status of the field and provides a brief outlook into the future.

Keywords

gravitationrelativity(stars:) pulsars: general

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