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most citedA NICER View of the Nearest and Brightest Millisecond Pulsar: PSR J0437$\unicode{x2013}$4715

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23 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Equation of state and neutron star properties with new mass-radius constraints from PSR~J1614--2230, PSR~J2124--3358, and 47~Tuc~X7

Melissa Mendes, Isak Svensson, Hannah Gottling +9

We study the impact of new mass-radius information from PSR J1614-2230, PSR J2124-3358, and 47 Tuc X7 in a combined equation of state inference based on chiral effective field theo…

astro-ph.HE2026

A NICER view of PSR J16142230: a massive and compact millisecond pulsar

Lucien Mauviard, Sebastien Guillot, Lami Suleiman +17

Using pulse profile modeling, we obtain the mass-radius measurement of a millisecond pulsar (MSP) with data from the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR, XMM-Newton and the…

astro-ph.HE2026

A NICER view of the millisecond pulsar PSR J21243358: evidence for a helium atmosphere

Denis González-Caniulef, Sebastien Guillot, Pierre Stammler +12

Pulse profile modeling has proven to be a powerful technique for determining the mass and radius of neutron stars. To date, this method has been applied to a handful of millisecond…

astro-ph.HE2026

Pulse profile modelling of the 2024 outburst of the accreting millisecond pulsar SRGA J144459.2-604207

Bas Dorsman, Tuomo Salmi, Anna L. Watts +14

Pulse profile modelling via relativistic ray-tracing can constrain the system parameters of neutron stars, notably their mass and radius. Among these objects, accreting millisecond…

astro-ph.HE2026

A NICER View of PSR J0030+0451: Updated Constraints from Six Years of NICER Observations

Yves Kini, Lucien Mauviard, Tuomo Salmi +13

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 den…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Impact of Accretion Assumptions on Pulse Profile Modelling of Superburst Oscillations in 4U 1636-536

Yves Kini, Anna L. Watts, Tuomo Salmi +7

Modelling the coherent pulsations observed during thermonuclear bursts offers a valuable method to probe the poorly understood equation of state of dense and cold matter. Here we a…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 53 cited

A NICER view of the 1.4 solar-mass edge-on pulsar PSR J0614-3329

Lucien Mauviard, Sebastien Guillot, Tuomo Salmi +20

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 Composit…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 26 cited

Dense Matter in Neutron Stars with eXTP

Ang Li, Anna L. Watts, Guobao Zhang +82

In this White Paper, we present the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission to constrain the equation of state of dense matter in neutron stars, explo…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Scaling relations for the uncertainty in neutron star radius inferred from pulse profile modelling: the effect of spin rate

Erik Bootsma, Serena Vinciguerra, Anna L. Watts +2

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 14 cited

Cross-Comparison of Sampling Algorithms for Pulse Profile Modeling of PSR J0740+6620

Mariska Hoogkamer, Yves Kini, Tuomo Salmi +2

In the last few years, NICER data has enabled mass and radius inferences for various pulsars, and thus shed light on the equation of state for dense nuclear matter. This is achieve…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Individual Neutrino Masses From a Supernova

Peter B. Denton, Yves Kini

A nearby supernova will carry an unprecedented wealth of information about astrophysics, nuclear physics, and particle physics. Because supernova are fundamentally neutrino driven…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 86 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Parameter constraints for accreting millisecond pulsars with synthetic NICER data

Bas Dorsman, Tuomo Salmi, Anna L. Watts +10

Pulse profile modelling (PPM) is a technique for inferring mass, radius and hotspot properties of millisecond pulsars. PPM is now regularly used for analysis of rotation-powered mi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 273 cited

A NICER View of the Nearest and Brightest Millisecond Pulsar: PSR J0437$\unicode{x2013}$4715

Devarshi Choudhury, Tuomo Salmi, Serena Vinciguerra +17

We report Bayesian inference of the mass, radius and hot X-ray emitting region properties - using data from the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) - for the brighte…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 177 cited

The Radius of the High-mass Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 with 3.6 yr of NICER Data

Tuomo Salmi, Devarshi Choudhury, Yves Kini +14

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 fro…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 41 cited

Constraining the Properties of the Thermonuclear Burst Oscillation Source XTE J1814-338 Through Pulse Profile Modelling

Yves Kini, Tuomo Salmi, Serena Vinciguerra +8

Pulse profile modelling (PPM) is a comprehensive relativistic ray-tracing technique employed to determine the properties of neutron stars. In this study, we apply this technique to…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 209 cited

An updated mass-radius analysis of the 2017-2018 NICER data set of PSR J0030+0451

Serena Vinciguerra, Tuomo Salmi, Anna L. Watts +11

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 state c…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

X-PSI Parameter Recovery for Temperature Map Configurations Inspired by PSR J0030+0451

Serena Vinciguerra, Tuomo Salmi, Anna L. Watts +3

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 im…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

Pulse Profile Modelling of Thermonuclear Burst Oscillations II: Handling variability

Yves Kini, Tuomo Salmi, Serena Vinciguerra +6

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 33 cited

Atmospheric Effects on Neutron Star Parameter Constraints with NICER

Tuomo Salmi, Serena Vinciguerra, Devarshi Choudhury +7

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 rota…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 13 cited

Pulse Profile Modeling of Thermonuclear Burst Oscillations I: The Effect of Neglecting Variability

Yves Kini, Tuomo Salmi, Anna L. Watts +6

We study the effects of the time-variable properties of thermonuclear X-ray bursts on modeling their millisecond-period burst oscillations. We apply the pulse profile modeling tech…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 18 cited

Bhjet: a public multi-zone, steady state jet + thermal corona spectral model

M. Lucchini, C. Ceccobello, S. Markoff +7

Accreting black holes are sources of major interest in astronomy, particular those launching jets because of their ability to accelerate particles, and dramatically affect their su…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 35 cited

Ultra-High-Energy Tau Neutrino Cross Sections with GRAND and POEMMA

Peter B. Denton, Yves Kini

Next generation neutrino experiments will push the limits in our understanding of astroparticle physics in the neutrino sector to energies orders of magnitude higher than the curre…