NASAtells the storyof a neutron star merger as it unfolds, giving way to a tremendous kilonova explosion. The sun will never become a neutron star, instead ending its life as a white dwarf. But while these stellar remnants are quite as extreme as neutron stars they are still fascinating acc...
The phenomenon was discovered thanks to NASA's Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), mounted on the International Space Station, which recorded 15 explosions between 2017 and 2022. The researchers discovered 15 thermonuclear X-ray bursts from the X-ray binary star system 4U 1820-30 d...
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This illustration compares the size of a neutron star to the area around Montreal. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Larger stars have enough mass to crush their cores down almost as far as they can go. In these cases, the leftover remnant is...
Neutron star "Neutron Star" redirects here. For the story by Larry Niven, see Neutron Star (short story). Neutron stars crush half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than Manhattan. A neutron star is a type of stellar remnant that can result from the ...
star, and complex absorption in the direction of the source, might bias the photo-geometric distance estimate with respect to the purely geometric priors, which are rather well defined in our case. Again, in the context of our work, a lower distance would imply an even lower neutron star ...
Reliable neutron star mass measurements are key to determining the equation of state of cold nuclear matter, but such measurements are rare. Black widows and redbacks are compact binaries consisting of millisecond pulsars and semi-degenerate companion st
the rates are suppressed by a factor of exp(−Δj/kT) where Δjis the BCS gap for either protons or neutrons (j=p, n, respectively). Since this gap energy depends on the density, it alters the predicted rates of cooling in a way that can probe the interior structure of the star....
Building up statistics over time, one may attempt to invert the neutron and gamma spectra similarly to what was done for the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) (Köhler et al. 2011), albeit with considerably lower counting statistics and fidelity of ...
(Image credit: ESA/XMM-Newton; NASA/Chandra and SDSS) Astronomers have discovered the brightestneutron starever found. This extremely dense object is 1,000 times brighter than researchers previously thought was possible for neutron stars, which are the remnants of star explosions, a new study fin...