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Eatough, Ralph | |||||||
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Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy - Auf dem Hügel 69 - Bonn - Nordrhein-Westfalen - Germany | |||||||
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NS4 |
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BlackHoleCam - Testing General Relativity with pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A* | |||||
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Abstract |
A radio pulsar orbiting the supermassive black hole candidate at the centre of the Galaxy - Sagittarius A* - would form an exquisite "laboratory" for testing theories of gravity. Pulsars in this location can be used to test General Relativity and the fundamental predictions of the properties of black holes to an unparalleled precision. While the Galactic Centre appears to provide an ideal environment to produce pulsars, there are currently only a handful known within a projected distance of 70 parsecs - none of which are in close enough orbits around the black hole to be utilized. In this talk I will introduce BlackHoleCam - a new synergetic project aimed at imaging the black hole with very long baseline interferometry, modeling of its accretion flow and, the subject of this talk, the detection and measurement of pulsars in close orbits. The BlackHoleCam team are active partners of the global Event Horizon Telescope consortium. |
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