What We Have Learned from NICER About Neutron Star Radii

arXiv:2609.36169 · astro-ph.HE, nucl-th · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, nucl-th

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Core — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 11× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Equation of State (EoS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Eccentric Binary Millisecond Pulsars
• An Investigation of Systematic Effects from Background Priors on PSR J0740$+$6620 Radius Estimates using Synthetic NICER and XMM-Newton Data
• A NICER View of PSR J0030+0451: Updated Constraints from Six Years of NICER Observations
• A NICER view of the 1.4 solar-mass edge-on pulsar PSR J0614-3329

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