The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER): design and development

By K. Gendreau, Z. Arzoumanian, Phillip W. Adkins, C. Albert, J. F. Anders, Andrew Aylward, C. Baker, E. Balsamo, W. Bamford, Suyog S. Benegalrao and 98 more. Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016

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• Constraining the Neutron Star Mass–Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. I. The Millisecond Pulsar X-Ray Data Set (2019, methodology): “The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER; see Gendreau et al. 2016), operating on the International Space Station (ISS) since 2017 June, is focusing on measuring R and M of a few nearby rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) that produce thermal radiation by fitting model pulse…”
• Constraining the Neutron Star Mass–Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. II. Emission from Hot Spots on a Rapidly Rotating Neutron Star (2019, background): “Providing such measurements is one of the principal goals of NASA’s Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission (see Gendreau et al. 2016), which was launched and installed on the International Space Station in 2017 June.”
• Implications from GW170817 and I-Love-Q relations for relativistic hybrid stars (2017, background): “For example, if the presently ongoing NICER [107] measures the radius of the 1.44 M⊙ 0.07 pulsar J0437-4715 to not be less than 14 km with an uncertainty of less than 500 m, then soft hadronic EOSs would be incompatible, and the stiff hadronic baseline of the set of EOSs discussed here would be favo”
• The Radius of the High-mass Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 with 3.6 yr of NICER Data (2024, methodology): “For example, this technique has been applied in analyzing the data from NASA’s Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER; Gendreau et al. 2016) for rotation-powered millisecond pulsars.”
• PSR J0030+0451 Mass and Radius from NICER Data and Implications for the Properties of Neutron Star Matter (2019, neutral): “Facility: NICER (Gendreau et al. 2016).”
• An Empirical Background Model for the NICER X-Ray Timing Instrument (2021, background): “The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is a NASA mission for X-ray astronomy that has been operating on the International Space Station (ISS) since it was launched and deployed in 2017 June (Gendreau et al. 2016).”
• From hadrons to quarks in neutron stars: a review (2017, methodology): “The ongoing NICER experiment [15] aims to determine the masses and radii of several nearby rotating neutron stars by accurately monitoring their x-ray pulse profiles in time.”
• A NICER View of PSR J0030+0451: Millisecond Pulsar Parameter Estimation (2019, methodology): “Facility: NICER (Gendreau et al. 2016) Software: Python/C language (Oliphant 2007), GNU Scientific Library (GSL; Gough 2009), NumPy (van der Walt et al. 2011), Cython (Behnel et al. 2011), SciPy (Jones et al. 2001–), OpenMP (Dagum & Menon 1998), MPI (Forum 1994), MPI for Python (Dalćın et al.…”
• A NICER View of PSR J0030+0451: Evidence for a Global-scale Multipolar Magnetic Field (2019, background): “Recently, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER; Gendreau et al. 2016) has been accruing unprecedented high-quality pulse profiles of some of the known X-ray pulsars.”
• A NICER View of PSR J0030+0451: Implications for the Dense Matter Equation of State (2019, methodology): “NASA’s Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER; Gendreau et al. 2016), a soft X-ray telescope installed on the International Space Station in 2017, was developed to estimate masses and radii of NSs using pulse-profile modeling of nearby rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs).”
• Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics ( ): Convective Boundaries, Element Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions (2017, background): “…emissions of neutron stars in the soft X-ray band with over 15 million seconds of exposures (Gendreau et al. 2012; Arzoumanian et al. 2014; Gendreau et al. 2016), opening a new window into the interior structure of and the dynamics that underlie neutron stars (e.g., Miller 2016; Özel et…”