Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, Joseph | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-04-10T16:43:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-04-10T16:43:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-04-10 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/62070 | |
dc.description.abstract | Pulsars are neutron stars -- the extremely dense, strongly magnetized, rapidly spinning remnants of supernova explosions. They also appear to be nature's most precise clocks. Discovery of the first orbiting pulsar opened a new field of astrophysics in which the relativistic nature of gravity is tested through precise comparisons of "pulsar time" with atomic time here on Earth. Among other results, the experiments have demonstrated the existence of gravitational waves, as predicted by Einstein's theory of gravity. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Presented by the Department of Astronomy, the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, and the Student Astronomical Society, and sponsored by the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, the University Activities Center, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. | en |
dc.format.extent | 36156174 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | audio/x-mpeg | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Astronomy of the 21st Century Distinguished Speaker Series | en |
dc.subject | Astronomy | en |
dc.subject | Pulsar | en |
dc.subject | Gravity | en |
dc.subject | Relativity | en |
dc.title | Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity | en |
dc.type | Presentation | en |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Princeton University | en |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/62070/1/Lecture Mar 13 2009.MP3 | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/62070/3/joseph_taylor_slides-March_13.ppt | |
dc.owningcollname | Science Lecture Series |
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