BlackHoleCam — Testing general relativity with pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A
/ Authors
R. Eatough, G. Desvignes, Kuo Liu, R. Wharton, A. Noutsos, P. Torne, R. Karuppusamy, Lijing Shao, M. Kramer, H. Falcke
and 1 more author
/ 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.
Journal: The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting