Pulsar timing and its applications

Abstract

Pulsars are remarkably precise "celestial clocks" that can be used to explore many different aspects of physics and astrophysics. In this article I give a brief summary of pulsar properties and describe some of the applications of pulsar timing, including tests of theories of gravitation, efforts to detect low-frequency gravitational waves using pulsar timing arrays and establishment a "pulsar timescale".

Presented at Physics of Neutron Stars - 2017. 50 years after, Saint Petersburg, July 2017, J. Physics Conf. Ser., 932, 012002

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