PSR J0030+0451 Mass and Radius from NICER Data and Implications for the Properties of Neutron Star Matter

• Published in: Astrophysical journal. Letters Vol. 887; no. 1; p. L24
• Main Authors: Miller, M. C., Lamb, F. K., Dittmann, A. J., Bogdanov, S., Arzoumanian, Z., Gendreau, K. C., Guillot, S., Harding, A. K., Ho, W. C. G., Lattimer, J. M., Ludlam, R. M., Mahmoodifar, S., Morsink, S. M., Ray, P. S., Strohmayer, T. E., Wood, K. S., Enoto, T., Foster, R., Okajima, T., Prigozhin, G., Soong, Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Goddard Space Flight Center The American Astronomical Society 10.12.2019; AAS; IOP Publishing; Bristol : IOP Publishing
• Subjects: Astronomy; ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astrophysics; Bayesian analysis; Equations of state; Estimates; Millisecond pulsars; Neutron star cores; Neutron stars; Neutrons; Nuclear Theory; Physicists; Physics; Stars; Statistical inference; Stellar models; Stellar surfaces; Systematic errors; Waveforms; X-ray sources

Neutron stars are not only of astrophysical interest, but are also of great interest to nuclear physicists because their attributes can be used to determine the properties of the dense matter in their cores. One of the most informative approaches for determining the equation of state (EoS) of this d...