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The Radius of PSR J0437–4715 from NICER Data

  • Authors: M. C. Miller, A. J. Dittmann, I. M. Holt, F. K. Lamb, C. Chirenti, Z. Arzoumanian, J. Berteaud, S. Bogdanov, K. C. Gendreau, W. C. G. Ho, S. M. Morsink, P. S. Ray, R. A. Remillard, Z. Wadiasingh, M. T. Wolff

M. C. Miller et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1000 .

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Caption: Figure 12.

Comparison of several probability distributions for the radius using our model with three uniform-temperature circular spots plus a modulated power law: the prior (dotted black line), the posterior after the completed pocomc run (green dashed line), the first 10% of the follow-up emcee run (red dotted–dashed line), and the final 10% of the follow-up emcee run (solid black line). The vertical axis is linear in the probability density. The colored tick marks rising from the radius axis near Re = 14 km show the medians of each of the probability distributions: 13.89 km for the pocomc run, 14.11 km for the first 10% of the emcee run, and 14.15 km for the last 10% of the emcee run. This figure reinforces the points made in Section 3.8.2: the pocomc sampling is broadly consistent with the later emcee sampling, although slightly narrower (see also J. U. Lange 2023), and the emcee run is well converged.

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