A NICER view of PSR J1614 - 2230: a massive and compact millisecond pulsar

arXiv:2609.00172 · astro-ph.HE, nucl-th · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, nucl-th

Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

Code: https://github.com/cmbant/getdist

Terminology

• Calibration — 18× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Equation of State (EoS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Information Gain — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 1× in this paper
• Symbolic Regression — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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