1. BlackHoleCam -- Testing general relativity with pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A*
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Eatough, Ralph P., Desvignes, Gregory, Liu, Kuo, Wharton, Robert S., Noutsos, Aristedis, Torne, Pablo, Karuppusamy, Ramesh, Shao, Lijing, Kramer, Michael, Falcke, Heino, and Rezzolla, Luciano
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
BlackHoleCam is a project funded by a European Research Council Synergy Grant to build a complete astrophysical description of nearby supermassive black holes by using a combination of radio imaging, pulsar observations, stellar astrometry and general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic models. BlackHoleCam scientists are active partners of the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium. In this talk I will discuss the use of pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A* for tests of General Relativity, the current difficulties in detecting such sources, recent results from the Galactic Centre magnetar PSR J1745-2900 and how BlackHoleCam aims to search for undiscovered pulsars in the Galactic Centre., Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, 1 - 7 July 2018
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- 2023
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