Applications of Radio Pulsars

该奖项将支持一项为期三年的研究计划，在该计划中，被称为射电脉冲星的快速旋转中子星将被用作解决当前行星系统形成、相对论引力和球状星团物理等问题的工具。具体目标是：(i)对毫秒周期脉冲星进行特别敏感的调查；（ii）中子星周围行星系统的探测和动力学研究；（三）利用双星脉冲星作为探测器，在强场条件下进一步检验广义相对论和其他引力理论；（iv）研究球状星团脉冲星的特性，并将其作为星团动力学的敏感探测器。

9317757 Wolszczan This award will support a three-year program of investigations in which rapidly rotating neutron stars known as radio pulsars will be used as tools to address current problems in planetary system formation, relativistic gravity, and globular cluster physics. The specific goals are: (i) conducting a particularly sensitive survey for millisecond period pulsars; (ii) detection and dynamical studies of planetary systems around neutron stars; (iii) further tests of general relativity and other gravity theories in strong-field conditions using binary pulsars as probes; and (iv) studies of properties of the globular cluster pulsars and using them as sensitive probes of cluster dynamics.