Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing

Abstract

Pulsars of very different types - isolated objects, and binaries with short- and long-period orbits, white-dwarf and neutron-star companions - provide the means to test both the predictions of general relativity and the viability of alternate theories of gravity. This article presents an overview of pulsars, then discusses the current status and future prospects of tests of equivalence principle violations and strong-field gravitational experiments.

60 pages, accepted for publication in Living Reviews in Relativity (see http://relativity.livingreviews.org). Version with high-resolution figures at http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/stairs/papers/sta03.ps.gz

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