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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…
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…
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…
Equation-of-state-informed pulse profile modeling
Mariska Hoogkamer, Nathan Rutherford, Daniela Huppenkothen +9
NICER has enabled mass-radius inferences for pulsars using pulse profile modeling (PPM), providing constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of cold, dense matter. To date, PPM an…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Constraining the dense matter equation of state with new NICER mass-radius measurements and new chiral effective field theory inputs
Nathan Rutherford, Melissa Mendes, Isak Svensson +12
Pulse profile modeling of X-ray data from NICER is now enabling precision inference of neutron star mass and radius. Combined with nuclear physics constraints from chiral effective…
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…
Exploring Waveform Variations among Neutron Star Ray-tracing Codes for Complex Emission Geometries
Devarshi Choudhury, Anna L. Watts, Alexander J. Dittmann +8
Pulse Profile Modeling (PPM), the technique used to infer mass, radius and geometric parameters for rotation-powered millisecond pulsars using data from the Neutron Star Interior C…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Radius of PSR J0740+6620 from NICER with NICER Background Estimates
Tuomo Salmi, Serena Vinciguerra, Devarshi Choudhury +15
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-New…
A NICER View of the Massive Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 Informed by Radio Timing and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy
Thomas E. Riley, Anna L. Watts, Paul S. Ray +27
We report on Bayesian estimation of the radius, mass, and hot surface regions of the massive millisecond pulsar PSR J07406620, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of Neutron S…
Constraining the Neutron Star Mass--Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. III. Model Description and Verification of Parameter Estimation Codes
Slavko Bogdanov, Alexander J. Dittmann, Wynn C. G. Ho +16
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 p…