Speaker
Prof.
Michael Kramer
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie)
Description
We experience a golden era in testing and exploring relativistic gravity. Whether it is results from gravitational wave detectors, satellite or lab experiments, radio astronomy plays an important complementary role. Here one can mention the cosmic microwave background, black hole imaging and, obviously, binary pulsars. This talk will concentrate on the latter and new results from studies of strongly self-gravitating bodies with unrivalled precision. I compare the results to other methods, discuss implications for other areas of relativistic astrophysics and will give an outlook of what we can expect from new instruments in the near future.
Primary author
Prof.
Michael Kramer
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie)
