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Constraining the Neutron Star Mass–Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. II. Emission from Hot Spots on a Rapidly Rotating Neutron Star

  • Authors: Slavko Bogdanov, Frederick K. Lamb, Simin Mahmoodifar, M. Coleman Miller, Sharon M. Morsink, Thomas E. Riley, Tod E. Strohmayer, Albert K. Tung, Anna L. Watts, Alexander J. Dittmann, Deepto Chakrabarty, Sebastien Guillot, Zaven Arzoumanian, and Keith C. Gendreau

2019 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 887 L26.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 14.

Left: results of the emission line tests OS1k and OS1l (from top to bottom, respectively) for five representative spin phases (ϕ = 0.25, 0.125, 0, 0.75, and 0.875, in order of increasing photon energy of the observed line) for the CU (black), IM (yellow), GSFC-M (orange), GSFC-S (blue), and AB (purple) codes. The spikiness evident in the spectra at some phases for the CU and IM codes is produced due to inexact interpolation of the line profiles. Right: monochromatic pulse profiles for the OS1k and OS1l tests at energies 0.75 keV at ϕ ≈ 0.125 (from IM code, marked in yellow), 0.8 keV at ϕ ≈ 0.0 (from GSFC-S code, marked in blue), and 0.9 keV at ϕ ≈ 0.8 (from AB code, marked in purple). Due to the narrow band nature of the emission lines, at a given photon energy in the observer rest frame the spot emission is only observed at some rotational phases.

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