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09-06-2009
Today's colloquium: Studying Fundamental Physics with Radio Astronomy (M. Kramer , Bonn)
Submitter: | Jean-Mathias Griessmeier |
Description: | Radio astronomical measurements allow the study of a variety of questions in fundamental physics. Those questions range from the equation-of-state of super-dense matter to the investigation of fundamental forces such as gravity and magnetism. This talk will focus mostly on the exploitation of fast-rotating neutrons stars that are visible as radio pulsars. Their observations allow us to test general relativity and alternative theories of gravity and works towards the detection of a long-wave cosmological gravitational wave background. The current status and future experiments are discussed.
Image above: Artistic impression of the Double Pulsar system where two active radio pulsars orbit each other in just 145 min with speeds of 1 Million km/h. |
Copyright: | M. Kramer |
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