Prospects for accurate distance measurements of pulsars with the Square Kilometre Array: Enabling fundamental physics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 528, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Smits, R ^a,b   Tingay, S J ^c   Wex, N ^d,e   Kramer, M ^d,e   Stappers, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^e NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

astrometry; parallaxes; pulsars: general; stars: neutron; telescopes

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ARRIVAL TIME; ASTROMETRY; BINARY SYSTEMS; ELECTRON DENSITIES; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; GENERAL RELATIVITY; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LONG BASE LINE; MAXIMUM DISTANCE; PARALLAXES; PULSARS: GENERAL; RADIO EMISSION; RADIO SIGNALS; STARS: NEUTRON; TIME COORDINATES;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RELATIVITY; STARS; TESTING;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 79952397039     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201016141     Document Type: Article

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