2024/03/21 by Shao-Peng Tang, Luo, Chuan-Ning, Tang, Shao-Peng +8 · 2 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Superconducting Materials and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2403.14105
openalex publication_date 2024/03/21 · openalex created_date 2024/03/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In 2019, Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) mission released its findings on the mass and radius of the isolated neutron star (INS) PSR J0030+0451, revealing a mass of approximately 1.4 solar masses (M\odot) and a radius near 13 kilometers. However, the recent re-analysis by the NICER collaboration \citepvinciguerra2024updated suggests that the available data primarily yields a precise inference of the compactness for this source while the resulting mass and radius are strongly model-dependent and diverse (the 68.3% credible regions just overlap slightly for the ST+PDT and PDT-U models). By integrating this compactness data with the equation of state (EoS) refined by our latest investigations, we have deduced the mass and radius for PSR J0030+0451, delivering estimates of M=1.48+0.09-0.10~M_\odot and R=12.38-0.70+0.51~\rm km for the compactness found in ST+PDT model, alongside M=1.47+0.14-0.20~M_\odot and R=12.37-0.69+0.50~\rm km for the compactness in PDT-U model. These two groups of results are well consistent with each other and the direct X-ray data inference within the ST+PDT model seems to be favored. Additionally, we have calculated the tidal deformability, moment of inertia, and gravitational binding energy for this NS. Furthermore, employing these refined EoS models, we have updated mass-radius estimates for three INSs with established gravitational redshifts.