Multi-Wavelength Studies of Pulsars and Their Companions [Paperback]

The focus of?his prize-winning thesis is on observations and modeling of binary millisecond pulsars. But in addition,?John Antoniadis covers a wide range of observational measurements of binary compact stars systems and tests of General Relativity, like indirect measurements of gravitational wave emission?and posing the most stringent constraints on Scalar-Tensor gravity theories. Among others, he presents a system that hosts the most massive neutron star known to date, which has important ramifications for strong-field gravity and nuclear physics.?This impressive work was awarded the Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck Society and the Best PhD in Gravity, Particle and Atomic physics award by the German Physics Society (DPG).Neutron Stars and Pulsars.- Binary and Millisecond Pulsars.- An Observational Test for Low-Mass Helium-Core White-Dwarf Models.- The Relativistic Binary PSR J1738+0333.- A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary.- A White Dwarf Companion to the Relativistic Pulsar J1141+6545.- Summary and Future Work.- Bibliography.Dr. Antoniadis received his PhD in 2013 from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit?t in Bonn. He now is a BEACON post-doctoral fellow at Max-Planck-Institut f?r Radioastronomie working on the commissioning of a state-of-the-art receiver (BEACON) for the Effelsberg 100-m telescope. In parallel he's working on observational tests of general relativity using binary pulsars, theory and observations of pulsar companions and theoretical investigations of low-mass X-ray binaries.
He has won several prestigious awards like the Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck Society and the Best PhD in Gravity, Particle and Atomic physics award by the German Physics Society (DPG).The focus of?his prize-winning thesis is on observations and modeling of binary millisecond pulsars.?But in addition,?John Antoniadis covers a wide range of observational measurements of binary compact stars systems and tests of General Relativity, like indireclc-