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arxiv: 1912.05707 · v1 · pith:JL3YB43Anew · submitted 2019-12-12 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE

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

Slavko Bogdanov , Frederick K. Lamb , Simin Mahmoodifar , M. Coleman Miller , Sharon M. Morsink , Thomas E. Riley , Tod E. Strohmayer , Anna L. Watts
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Alexander J. Dittmann Deepto Chakrabarty Sebastien Guillot Zaven Arzoumanian Keith C. Gendreau
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We describe the model of surface emission from a rapidly rotating neutron star that is applied to Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray data of millisecond pulsars in order to statistically constrain the neutron star mass-radius relation and dense matter equation of state. To ensure that the associated calculations are both accurate and precise, we conduct an extensive suite of verification tests between our numerical codes for both the Schwarzschild + Doppler and Oblate Schwarzschild approximations, and compare both approximations against exact numerical calculations. We find superb agreement between the code outputs, as well as in comparison against a set of analytical and semi-analytical calculations, which combined with their speed, demonstrates that the codes are well-suited for large-scale statistical sampling applications. A set of verified, high-precision reference synthetic pulse profiles is provided to the community to facilitate testing of other independently developed codes.

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