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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

Recently, the radius of neutron star (NS) PSR J0740+6620 was measured by Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and an updated measurement of neutron skin thickness of ${}^{208}$Pb ($R_{\rm skin}^{208}$) was reported by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 Shao-Peng Tang , Jin-Liang Jiang , Ming-Zhe Han , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Relating different global neutron-star (NS) properties, such as tidal deformability and radius, or mass and radius, requires an equation of state (EoS). Determining the NS EoS is therefore not only the science goal of a variety of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-27 P. J. Davis , H. Dinh Thi , A. F. Fantina , F. Gulminelli , M. Oertel , L. Suleiman

The increasing richness of data related to cold dense matter, from laboratory experiments to neutron-star observations, requires a framework for constraining the properties of such matter that makes use of all relevant information. Here, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Coleman Miller , Cecilia Chirenti , Frederick K. Lamb

Understanding the dense matter equation of state at extreme conditions is an important open problem. Astrophysical observations of neutron stars promise to solve this, with NICER poised to make precision measurements of mass and radius for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 S. K. Greif , G. Raaijmakers , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk , A. L. Watts

In this letter, we present a new, weakly model-dependent, test for ``standard" equations of state (EoS) models that disfavor sharp and strong phase-transitions, by using neutron star mass and radius observations. We show the radii of two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-24 Zidu Lin , Andrew Steiner

Driven by recent laboratory experiments and astronomical observations, significant advances have deepened our understanding of neutron-star physics. NICER's Pulse Profile Modeling has refined our knowledge of neutron star masses and radii,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Marc Salinas , Jorge Piekarewicz

Neutron stars provide a unique laboratory for studying matter at extreme pressures and densities. While there is no direct way to explore their interior structure, X-rays emitted from these stars can indirectly provide clues to the equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Delaney Farrell , Pierre Baldi , Jordan Ott , Aishik Ghosh , Andrew W. Steiner , Atharva Kavitkar , Lee Lindblom , Daniel Whiteson , Fridolin Weber

We perform a Bayesian inference of the dense-matter equation of state (EOS) within a unified framework that incorporates hadronic matter, quark matter, and a smooth hadron-to-quark crossover. The EOS is constrained using physical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Xavier Grundler , Bao-An Li

We perform a comprehensive Bayesian analysis to constrain the neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) using a wide range of terrestrial and astrophysical data. The terrestrial inputs include quantities related to symmetric nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-19 Sk Md Adil Imam , N. K. Patra

The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star-neutron star merger, GW170817, has opened up a new avenue for constraining the ultradense-matter equation of state (EOS). The deviation of the observed waveform from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Carolyn A. Raithel

We develop a new nonparametric method to reconstruct the Equation of State (EoS) of Neutron Star with multimessenger data. As an universal function approximator, the Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) with one hidden layer and a sigmoidal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Ming-Zhe Han , Jin-Liang Jiang , Shao-Peng Tang , Yi-Zhong Fan

We construct numerical models of the newly discovered binary pulsar J0737-3039A, both with a fully relativistic, uniformly rotating, equilibrium code that handles arbitrary spins and in the relativistic, slow-rotation approximation. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-17 I. A. Morrison , T. W. Baumgarte , S. L. Shapiro , V. R. Pandharipande

Rapid access to accurate equation-of-state (EOS) data is crucial in the warm-dense matter regime, as it is employed in various applications, such as providing input for hydrodynamic codes to model inertial confinement fusion processes. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Timothy J. Callow , Jan Nikl , Eli Kraisler , Attila Cangi

We present an analysis of the effects of uncertainties in the atmosphere models on the radius, mass, and other neutron star parameter constraints for the NICER observations of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. To date, NICER has applied…

Understanding the equation of state (EOS) of neutron stars (NSs) is a fundamental challenge in astrophysics and nuclear physics. A first-order phase transition (FOPT) at high densities could lead to the formation of a quark core,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Zuhua Ji , Jiarui Chen

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…

We perform a systematic analysis of neutron star radius constraints from five quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries and examine how they depend on measurements of their distances and amounts of intervening absorbing material, as well as their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-20 James M. Lattimer , Andrew W. Steiner

We report a new microscopic equation of state (EOS) of dense symmetric nuclear matter, pure neutron matter, and asymmetric and $\beta$-stable nuclear matter at zero temperature using recent realistic two-body and three-body nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-31 Ignazio Bombaci , Domenico Logoteta

Recent astrophysical mass inferences of compact stars HESS J1731-347 and PSR J0952-0607, with extremely small and large masses respectively, as well as the measurement of the neutron skin of Ca in the CREX experiment challenge and constrain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Jia Jie Li , Armen Sedrakian , Mark Alford