Abstract
Gravitational lensing and the time delay of a pulsar signal in the gravitational field of a mass are General Relativistic effects that may be used as a tool to detect the observational parameters of dark matter in our Galaxy. We propose to use observations of the time delay of pulses from pulsars to detect lensing objects located close to the line of the sight, to study the distribution of dark matter in our Galaxy. We discuss the possibility of finding such an event by measuring the delay of pulses from a pulsar, and apply it to data for PSR B0525+21.
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Larchenkova, T.I., Doroshenko, O.V. (1996). A Possible Manifestation of Microlensing in Pulsar Timing. In: Kochanek, C.S., Hewitt, J.N. (eds) Astrophysical Applications of Gravitational Lensing. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 173. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0221-3_63
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