Probing gravitation with pulsars
- 1 August 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
- Vol. 8 (S291) , 19-26
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s174392131202306x
Abstract
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
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