{
  "id": "1510.06371",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-10-21T19:07:25.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-10-21T19:07:25.000Z",
  "title": "Prospects for Neutron Star Equation of State Constraints using \"Recycled\" Millisecond Pulsars",
  "authors": [
    "Slavko Bogdanov"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 7 figures; invited contribution to the European Physics Journal A topical issue on \"Exotic Matter in Neutron Stars\"",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "Rotation-powered \"recycled\" millisecond pulsars are a variety of rapidly-spinning neutron stars that typically show thermal X-ray radiation due to the heated surface of their magnetic polar caps. Detailed numerical modeling of the rotation-induced thermal X-ray pulsations observed from recycled millisecond pulsars, including all relevant relativistic and stellar atmospheric effects, has been identified as a promising approach towards an astrophysical determination of the true neutron star mass-radius relation, and by extension the state of cold matter at densities exceeding those of atomic nuclei. Herein, I review the basic model and methodology commonly used to extract information regarding neutron star structure from the pulsed X-ray radiation observed from millisecond pulsars. I also summarize the results of past X-ray observations of these objects and the prospects for precision neutron star mass-radius measurements with the upcoming Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray timing mission.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-10-21T19:07:25.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "millisecond pulsars",
      "neutron star equation",
      "state constraints",
      "star interior composition explorer",
      "neutron star mass-radius measurements"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1140/epja/i2016-16037-x",
      "journal": "European Physical Journal A",
      "year": 2016,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 52,
      "pages": 37
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2016EPJA...52...37B",
      "inspire": 1399183
    }
  }
}