Frame dragging in black hole-pulsar binaries
Abstract
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The discovery of frame-dragging effects in binary pulsar timing experiments requires a compact companion with sufficiently large spin. A pulsar orbiting a fast rotating black hole could provide an appropriate test system. In this paper we address questions concerning the identification of a black hole companion in such a system, the measurability of the frame dragging caused by the rotation of the black hole, and the measurability of the quadrupole moment, which would prove the presence of a Kerr black hole.
6 pages, latex, 4 postscript figures. Talk given at "Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity," XXXIV Rencontres de Moriond, January 23-30, 1999
6 pages, latex, 4 postscript figures. Talk given at "Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity," XXXIV Rencontres de Moriond, January 23-30, 1999