Publications (82)
NICER Magnetar Burst Catalog
Che-Yen Chu, Chin-Ping Hu, Teruaki Enoto +13
In this paper, we present a comprehensive catalog of short bursts from magnetars based on eight years of NICER observations. A total of 1130 bursts were identified from 14 sources,…
A NICER View of PSR J12311411: A Complex Case
Tuomo Salmi, Julia S. Deneva, Paul S. Ray +16
Recent constraints on neutron star mass and radius have advanced our understanding of the equation of state (EOS) of cold dense matter. Some of them have been obtained by modeling…
NICER observes a secondary peak in the decay of a thermonuclear burst from 4U 1608-52
Gaurava K. Jaisawal, Jérôme Chenevez, Peter Bult +14
We report for the first time below 1.5 keV, the detection of a secondary peak in an Eddington-limited thermonuclear X-ray burst observed by the Neutron Star Interior Composition Ex…
Constraining the Neutron Star Mass-Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. II. Emission from Hot Spots on a Rapidly Rotating Neutron Star
Slavko Bogdanov, Frederick K. Lamb, Simin Mahmoodifar +10
We describe the model of surface emission from a rapidly rotating neutron star that is applied to Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray data of millisecond pulsars in or…
Dense matter with eXTP
Anna L. Watts, Wenfei Yu, Juri Poutanen +73
In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extr…
NICER Detects a Soft X-ray Kilohertz Quasi-periodic Oscillation in 4U 0614+09
Peter Bult, Diego Altamirano, Zaven Arzoumanian +16
We report on the detection of a kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). Analyzing approximately 165 ks of NICER expo…