Future measurements of the Lense-Thirring effect in the Double Pulsar

Abstract

The Double Pulsar system PSR J0737-3039A/B has proven to be an excellent laboratory for high precision tests of general relativity. With additional years of timing measurements and new telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the precision of these tests will increase and new effects like the Lense-Thirring precession of the orbit will become measurable. Here, we discuss the prospects of measuring the Lense-Thirring effect and thereby constraining the equations of state at supra-nuclear densities in neutron stars using the Double Pulsar.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures; Contribution to the proceedings of "The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 201