Observing Radio Pulsars in the Galactic Centre with the Square Kilometre Array

Understand

The discovery and timing of radio pulsars within the Galactic centre is a fundamental aspect of the SKA Science Case, responding to the topic of "Strong Field Tests of Gravity with Pulsars and Black Holes" (Kramer et al.

• 2004; Cordes et al.
• 2004).
• Pulsars have in many ways proven to be excellent tools for testing the General theory of Relativity and alternative gravity theories (see Wex (2014) for a recent review).