Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-09-15
New Astron.Rev.48:993-1002,2004; PoS MRU:020,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
SKA-Key Science Project, to appear in "Science with the Square Kilometer Array," eds.C. Carilli and S. Rawlings, New Astronomy
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.newar.2004.09.020
The sensitivity of the SKA enables a number of tests of theories of gravity. A Galactic Census of pulsars will discover most of the active pulsars in the Galaxy beamed toward us. In this census will almost certainly be pulsar-black hole binaries as well as pulsars orbiting the super-massive black hole in the Galactic centre. These systems are unique in their capability to probe the ultra-strong field limit of relativistic gravity. These measurements can be used to test the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture and the No-Hair theorem. The large number of millisecond pulsars discovered with the SKA will also provide a dense array of precision clocks on the sky. These clocks will act as the multiple arms of a huge gravitational wave detector, which can be used to detect and measure the stochastic cosmological gravitational wave background that is expected from a number of sources.
Backer Donald C.
Cordes James M.
Johnston Scott
Kramer Mallie Mae
Lazio Joseph T. W.
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