Neutron stars and the nuclear equation of state

GF Burgio, HJ Schulze, I Vidaña, JB Wei - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
We review the current status and recent progress of microscopic many-body approaches
and phenomenological models, which are employed to construct the equation of state of …

The radius of PSR J0740+ 6620 from NICER and XMM-Newton data

MC Miller, FK Lamb, AJ Dittmann… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
PSR J0740+ 6620 has a gravitational mass of 2.08±0.07 M⊙, which is the highest reliably
determined mass of any neutron star. As a result, a measurement of its radius will provide …

A NICER view of the massive pulsar PSR J0740+ 6620 informed by radio timing and XMM-Newton spectroscopy

TE Riley, AL Watts, PS Ray, S Bogdanov… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on Bayesian estimation of the radius, mass, and hot surface regions of the
massive millisecond pulsar PSR J0740+ 6620, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of …

A NICER view of PSR J0030+ 0451: millisecond pulsar parameter estimation

TE Riley, AL Watts, S Bogdanov, PS Ray… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on Bayesian parameter estimation of the mass and equatorial radius of the
millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+ 0451, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of Neutron Star …

PSR J0030+ 0451 mass and radius from NICER data and implications for the properties of neutron star matter

MC Miller, FK Lamb, AJ Dittmann… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

A strangely light neutron star within a supernova remnant

V Doroshenko, V Suleimanov, G Pühlhofer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To constrain the equation of state of cold dense matter, astrophysical measurements are
essential. These are mostly based on observations of neutron stars in the X-ray band, and …

Grand unification of neutron stars

VM Kaspi - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The last decade has shown us that the observational properties of neutron stars are
remarkably diverse. From magnetars to rotating radio transients, from radio pulsars to …

Supernova neutrinos: production, oscillations and detection

A Mirizzi, I Tamborra, HT Janka, N Saviano… - La Rivista del Nuovo …, 2016 - Springer
Neutrinos play a crucial role in the collapse and explosion of massive stars, governing the
infall dynamics of the stellar core, triggering and fueling the explosion and driving the …

The equation of state from observed masses and radii of neutron stars

AW Steiner, JM Lattimer, EF Brown - The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We determine an empirical dense matter equation of state (EOS) from a heterogeneous data
set of six neutron stars: three Type-I X-ray bursters with photospheric radius expansion …

An Updated Mass–Radius Analysis of the 2017–2018 NICER Data Set of PSR J0030+ 0451

S Vinciguerra, T Salmi, AL Watts… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In 2019 the NICER collaboration published the first mass and radius inferred for PSR
J0030+ 0451, thanks to NICER observations, and consequent constraints on the equation of …