A NICER view of the massive pulsar PSR J0740+ 6620 informed by radio timing and XMM-Newton spectroscopy

TE Riley, AL Watts, PS Ray, S Bogdanov… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on Bayesian estimation of the radius, mass, and hot surface regions of the
massive millisecond pulsar PSR J0740+ 6620, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of …

A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetars are highly magnetized young neutron stars that occasionally produce enormous
bursts and flares of X-rays and γ-rays. Of the approximately thirty magnetars currently known …

A nicer view of the nearest and brightest millisecond pulsar: Psr j0437–4715

D Choudhury, T Salmi, S Vinciguerra… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report Bayesian inference of the mass, radius, and hot X-ray emitting region properties—
using data from the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER)—for the brightest …

A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host

S Chatterjee, CJ Law, RS Wharton, S Burke-Spolaor… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts, are astronomical radio flashes of unknown physical nature with durations
of milliseconds. Their dispersive arrival times suggest an extragalactic origin and imply radio …

Peering into the dark side: Magnesium lines establish a massive neutron star in PSR J2215+ 5135

M Linares, T Shahbaz, J Casares - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
New millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in compact binaries provide a good opportunity to search
for the most massive neutron stars. Their main-sequence companion stars are often strongly …

Development of the model of galactic interstellar emission for standard point-source analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope data

F Acero, M Ackermann, M Ajello, A Albert… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Most of the celestial γ rays detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi
Gamma-ray Space Telescope originate from the interstellar medium when energetic cosmic …

The McGill magnetar catalog

SA Olausen, VM Kaspi - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of the 26 currently known magnetars and magnetar candidates. We
tabulate astrometric and timing data for all catalog sources, as well as their observed …

CHIME/FRB discovery of eight new repeating fast radio burst sources

BC Andersen, K Bandura, M Bhardwaj… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the discovery of eight repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources found using the
Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. These sources span …

A NICER View of PSR J1231− 1411: A Complex Case

T Salmi, JS Deneva, PS Ray, AL Watts… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent constraints on neutron star mass and radius have advanced our understanding of
the equation of state (EOS) of cold dense matter. Some of them have been obtained by …

Revival of the magnetar psr j1622–4950: Observations with meerkat, parkes, xmm-newton, swift, chandra, and nustar

F Camilo, P Scholz, M Serylak, S Buchner… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract New radio (MeerKAT and Parkes) and X-ray (XMM-Newton, Swift, Chandra, and
NuSTAR) observations of PSR J1622–4950 indicate that the magnetar, in a quiescent state …