Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing

"Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing"

Ingrid H. Stairs

	Abstract
1	Introduction
2	Pulsars, Observations, and Timing
	2.1	Pulsar properties
	2.2	Pulsar observations
	2.3	Pulsar timing
3	Tests of GR – Equivalence Principle Violations
	3.1	Strong Equivalence Principle: Nordtvedt effect
	3.2	Preferred-frame effects and non-conservation of momentum
	3.3	Strong Equivalence Principle: Dipolar gravitational radiation
	3.4	Preferred-location effects: Variation of Newton’s constant
4	Tests of GR – Strong-Field Gravity
	4.1	Post-Keplerian timing parameters
	4.2	The original system: PSR B1913+16
	4.3	PSR B1534+12 and other binary pulsars
	4.4	Combined binary-pulsar tests
	4.5	Independent geometrical information: PSR J0437–4715
	4.6	Spin-orbit coupling and geodetic precession
5	Conclusions and Future Prospects
6	Acknowledgements
	References
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