Galactic Center Pulsars with the ngVLA
Abstract
Pulsars in the Galactic Center (GC) are important probes of General Relativity, star formation, stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, and the interstellar medium. Despite years of searching, only a handful of pulsars in the central 0.5° are known. The high-frequency sensitivity of ngVLA will open a new window for discovery and characterization of pulsars in the GC. A pulsar in orbit around the GC black hole, Sgr A*, will provide an unprecedented probe of black hole physics and General Relativity.
- Publication:
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Science with a Next Generation Very Large Array
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1810.06623
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1810.06623
- Bibcode:
- 2018ASPC..517..793B
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- To be published in the ASP Monograph Series, "Science with a Next-Generation VLA", ed. E. J. Murphy (ASP, San Francisco, CA)