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In the last few years, the NICER collaboration has provided mass and radius inferences, via pulse profile modeling, for two pulsars: PSR J0030+0451 and PSR J0740+6620. Given the importance of these results for constraining the equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 Serena Vinciguerra , Tuomo Salmi , Anna L. Watts , Devarshi Choudhury , Yves Kini , Thomas E. Riley

We present new constraints on the neutron star equation of state (EOS) and mass distribution using a unified Bayesian inference framework that incorporates latest NICER measurements, including PSR J0614$-$3329, alongside gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Bhaskar Biswas , Prasanta Char

The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) records data of exceptional quality on the energy-dependent X-ray pulse profile of pulsars. However, in searching for evidence of pulsations, Guillot et al. (2019) introduce a procedure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Reed Essick

Pulse-profile modeling of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars targeted by NICER has enabled mass--radius constraints of several neutron star sources, with implications for the dense-matter equation of state. For the bright isolated pulsar…

We describe the X-ray pulse profile models we use, and how we use them, to analyze Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) observations of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars to obtain information about the mass-radius relation…

We report an updated analysis of the radius, mass, and heated surface regions of the massive pulsar PSR J0740+6620 using Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) data from 2018 September 21 to 2022 April 21, a substantial increase…

We report the detection of X-ray pulsations from the rotation-powered millisecond-period pulsars PSR J0740+6620 and PSR J1614-2230, two of the most massive neutron stars known, using observations with the Neutron Star Interior Composition…

We report a revised analysis for the radius, mass, and hot surface regions of the massive millisecond pulsar PSR J0740+6620, studied previously with joint fits to NICER and XMM-Newton data by Riley et al. (2021) and Miller et al. (2021). We…

NASA's Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) observed X-ray emission from the pulsar PSR J0030+0451 in 2018. Riley et al. reported Bayesian parameter measurements of the mass and the star's radius using pulse-profile modeling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-02 Chaitanya Afle , Patrick R. Miles , Silvina Caino-Lores , Collin D. Capano , Ingo Tews , Karan Vahi , Ewa Deelman , Michela Taufer , Duncan A. Brown

Pulse profile modelling using X-ray data from NICER permits the inference of mass and radius for rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. This in turn constrains the equation of state of cold dense matter. Previous studies indicate that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-02 Erik Bootsma , Serena Vinciguerra , Anna L. Watts , Yves Kini , Tuomo Salmi

Both the mass and radius of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 have been inferred via pulse-profile modeling of X-ray data obtained by NASA's NICER mission. In this Letter we study the implications of the mass-radius inference reported…

Accurate and precise measurements of neutron star radii provide invaluable information about the cold, dense matter in neutron star cores. Analyses of synthetic X-ray pulse waveform data similar to the data obtained from non-accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Isiah M. Holt , M. Coleman Miller , Alexander J. Dittmann , Frederick K. Lamb

Pulse profile modelling is a relativistic ray-tracing technique that has provided constraints on parameters, with a focus on mass and radius, of five rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. While the technique can also be applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Bas Dorsman , Tuomo Salmi , Anna L. Watts , Mason Ng , Anna Bobrikova , Vladislav Loktev , Juri Poutanen , Joern Wilms

Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) data have been used to estimate the masses and radii of the rotation-powered millisecond pulsars PSR J0030$+$0451, PSR J0740$+$6620, PSR J0437$-$4715, PSR J1231$-$1411, and PSR…

The NASA Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (\emph{NICER}) mission measures the X-ray pulse profiles of select millisecond pulsars and uses sophisticated pulse profile modeling (PPM) techniques to constrain their masses ($M$) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Ryan O'Connor , Chun Huang , Alexander Y. Chen

Modeling energy-dependent X-ray pulse profiles from rotation-powered millisecond pulsars observed with NICER has emerged as a promising avenue for measuring neutron star radii and probing the equation of state of cold, ultra-dense matter.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Tolga Guver , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel , Tong Zhao

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 Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray spectral-timing event…

One of the primary goals of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)-like X-ray missions is to impose stringent constraints on the neutron star equation of state by precisely measuring their masses and radii. NICER has recently…

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