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Thermal X-ray emission from rotation-powered millisecond pulsars, shaped by gravitational lensing and the beaming of the surface radiation, provides critical insights into neutron star properties. This approach has been the focus of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-31 Tong Zhao , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

The observation of the x-ray pulse profile emitted by hotspots on the surface of neutron stars offers a unique tool to measure the bulk properties of these objects, including their masses and radii. The x-ray emission takes place at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-06 Hector O. Silva , Nicolás Yunes

Motivated by the report by Cottam et al. (2002) of iron resonance scattering lines in the spectra of thermonuclear bursts from EXO 0748-676, we have investigated the information about neutron star structure and the geometry of the emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sudip Bhattacharyya , M. Coleman Miller , Frederick K. Lamb

The intense magnetic fields of neutron stars naturally lead to strong anisotropy and polarization of radiation emanating from their surfaces, both being sensitive to the hot spot position on the surface. Accordingly, pulse phase-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Matthew G. Baring , Hoa Dinh Thi , George A. Younes , Kun Hu

Inference of the equation-of-state (EoS) of dense nuclear matter in neutron-star cores is a principal science goal of X-ray and gravitational-wave observations of neutron stars. In particular, gravitational-wave observations provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Rahul Kashyap , Arnab Dhani , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

We study small-amplitude, nonlinear pulsations of uniformly and differentially rotating neutron stars employing a two-dimensional evolution code for general-relativistic hydrodynamics. Using Fourier transforms at several points inside the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikolaos Stergioulas , Theocharis A. Apostolatos , Jose A. Font

Four neutron star radius measurements have already been obtained by modeling the X-ray pulses of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars observed by the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER). We report here the radius measurement…

Pulse profile modelling is a relativistic ray-tracing technique that can be used to infer masses, radii and geometric parameters of neutron stars. In a previous study, we looked at the performance of this technique when applied to…

Context: In addition to coherent pulsation, many accreting neutron stars exhibit flaring activity and strong aperiodic variability on time scales comparable to or shorter than their pulsation period. Such a behavior shows that the accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Klochkov , R. Staubert , A. Santangelo , R. E. Rothschild , C. Ferrigno

This erratum aims to correct 1) the wrong expressions, 2) some typographical errors, 3) some erroneous points made in discussion of the disparity of heat flux ratios between our full RPA model and the local conductivity model, and 4) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Jia-Huei Jiang , Jian-Sheng Wang

We present a Bayesian method to constrain the masses and radii of neutron stars (NSs) using the information encoded in the X-ray pulse profiles of accreting millisecond pulsars. We model the shape of the pulses using "oblate Schwarzschild"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 T. Salmi , J. Nättilä , J. Poutanen

Precision measurements of neutron star radii can provide a powerful probe of the properties of cold matter beyond nuclear density. Beginning in the late 1970s it was proposed that the radius could be obtained from the apparent or inferred…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Sudip Bhattacharyya , M. Coleman Miller , Duncan K. Galloway

The pulsed X-ray emission from the neutron star surface acts as a window to study the state of matter in the neutron star interior. For accreting millisecond pulsars, the surface X-ray emission is generated from the `hotspots' formed due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Pushpita Das , Tuomo Salmi , Jordy Davelaar , Oliver Porth , Anna Watts

Many types of stars show periodic variations of radius and brightness, which are commonly referred to as `stellar pulsations'. Observed pulsational characteristics are determined by fundamental stellar parameters. Consequently,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 O. Kochukhov

Eddington-limited X-ray bursts from neutron stars can be used in conjunction with other spectroscopic observations to measure neutron star masses, radii, and distances. In order to quantify some of the uncertainties in the determination of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Duncan Galloway , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis

The luminosity of accreting magnetised neutron stars can largely exceed the Eddington value due to appearance of accretion columns. The height of the columns can be comparable to the neutron star radius. The columns produce the X-rays…

The pulse shapes simulated in the accompanying paper Part $-$ I are compared with observations of a model binary accreting X-ray pulsar, Centaurus X-3. With known Cen X-3 inclination angles provided as input to the $\texttt{AXP4}$ code, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-15 Parisee S. Shirke , Gulab C. Dewangan

Typographical corrections to the original paper, intended for publication in Physical Review E.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Harrop , S. N. Taraskin , S. R. Elliott

One of the primary science goals of the next generation of hard X-ray timing instruments is to determine the equation of state of the matter at supranuclear densities inside neutron stars, by measuring the radius of neutron stars with…

The masses and radii of low-magnetic field neutron stars can be measured by combining different observable quantities obtained from their X-ray spectra during thermonuclear X-ray bursts. One of these quantities is the apparent radius of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-22 Tolga Guver , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel