Testing Spacetime Symmetries with Radio Pulsars

Radio pulsars are excellent testbeds for gravity theories. I will talk about new tests we proposed and implemented with radio pulsar timing and white dwarf spectroscopy. From these tests, the best constraints on deviations from general relativity were derived.

Speaker: 
Lijing Shao (School of Physics, Peking University)
Location: 
DoA, Rm 2907
Time: 
Mon, 2015-03-09 12:00 to 13:00