BlackHoleCam — Testing general relativity with pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A
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.
- Publication:
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Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity
- Pub Date:
- 2022
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2306.01496
- Bibcode:
- 2022mgm..conf.1866E
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, 1 - 7 July 2018