A multi-wavelength view of PSR J0437-4715 with NICER and other missions: Radius measurements from far-ultraviolet to hard X-ray pulse profile modeling

Auteurs : Pierre Stammler, Sebastien Guillot, Denis González-Caniulef, Isak Svensson, Anna L. Watts, Tuomo Salmi, Yves Kini, Mariska Hoogkamer, Devarshi Choudhury, Bas Dorsman, Hannah Göttling, Kai Hebeler, Daniela Huppenkothen, Christine Kazantsev, Lucien Mauviard, Melissa Mendes, Jean-François Olive, Daniel J. Reardon, Nathan Rutherford, Achim Schwenk

arXiv: 2610.41846v1 (astro-ph.HE)
Soumis à arXiv le 30 Oct. 2026
Licence : CC BY 4.0
Résumé scientifique

We report updated mass and radius measurements for the millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 obtained with pulse profile modeling of the emission from the far-ultraviolet to the hard X-rays. Using an extended 2.56 Ms Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) dataset together with XMM-Newton, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray and Hubble Space Telescope observations, we perform Bayesian inference with models describing the thermal emission from hot spots of increasing complexities, together with the rest of the warm NS surface, as well as the non-thermal emission component represented by a phase-dependent (pulsed) power-law. With this comprehensive model and broadband data set, as well as radio timing priors on the mass, distance and inclination, our headline result for PSR J0437-4715 led to a mass M = 1.377(-0.034)(+0.038) Msun and an equatorial radius Req = 11.35(-0.39)(+0.40) km, one of the narrowest measurements of Req from NICER observations of millisecond pulsars. The geometric configuration favors a non-antipodal hot spot distribution, as noted in previous analyses of this pulsar. When combined with recent measurements of M and Req of other pulsars, the tight constraints from PSR J0437-4715 further reduce the allowed range of the dense matter equation of state, excluding those that predict radii above 12.0 km (at the 68% level) for all NS masses.

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