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— a function of the star’s compactness alone, so that whatever fraction of a percent of uncertainty NICER puts on M and R propagates directly into the redshift. The paper works through six NICER-mapped pulsars this way, and two of them mark the range worth remembering. PSR J0740+6620, the most massive precisely-timed neutron star known, comes in at roughly 2.07\, with a radio-timing mass fixed independently by Shapiro delay to 2.080.07\, [ 4 ] , giving a compactness near 0.25 and a surface redshift 0.40 — the deepest gravitational potential in the sample, though also, because its radius is the harder-measured half of the pair, the least precisely known redshift, at…
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Equation 12 · Crossed Fields
A Neutron Star Is a Redshift Standard
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— a function of the star’s compactness alone, so that whatever fraction of a percent of uncertainty NICER puts on M and R propagates directly into the redshift. The paper works through six NICER-mapped pulsars this way, and two of them mark the range worth remembering. PSR J0740+6620, the most massive precisely-timed neutron star known, comes in at roughly 2.07\, with a radio-timing mass fixed independently by Shapiro delay to 2.080.07\, [ 4 ] , giving a compactness near 0.25 and a surface redshift 0.40 — the deepest gravitational potential in the sample, though also, because its radius is the harder-measured half of the pair, the least precisely known redshift, at…
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