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Probing gravitation with pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2013

Michael Kramer
Michael Kramer*
Affiliation:
MPI für Radioastronomy, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany email: mkramer@mpifr.de Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of ManchesterOxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK email: michael.kramer@manchester.ac.uk
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Abstract

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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.

Keywords

gravitationtechniques:radio astronomystars:neutronpulsars:general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S291: Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years , August 2012 , pp. 19 - 26
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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