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BlackHoleCam -- Testing general relativity with pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A*
BlackHoleCam is a project funded by a European Research Council Synergy Grant
to build a complete astrophysical description of nearby supermassive black
holes by using a combination of radio imaging, pulsar observations, stellar
astrometry and general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic models. BlackHoleCam
scientists are active partners of the Event Horizon Telescope Consortium. In
this talk I will discuss the use of pulsars orbiting Sagittarius A* for tests
of General Relativity, the current difficulties in detecting such sources,
recent results from the Galactic Centre magnetar PSR J1745-2900 and how
BlackHoleCam aims to search for undiscovered pulsars in the Galactic Centre.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann
Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, 1 - 7
July 201