Super-Massive Neutron Stars

dc.creatorFreire, Paulo C. C.
dc.date2007-11-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:13:28Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:13:28Z
dc.descriptionWe present here the results of Arecibo timing of PSR B1516+02B, a 7.95-ms pulsar in a binary system with a ~0.17 solar mass companion and an orbital period of 6.85 days located in the globular cluster M5. The eccentricity of the orbit (e = 0.14) has allowed a measurement of the rate of advance of periastron: (0.0136 +/- 0.0007) degrees per year. It is very likely that the periastron advance is due to the effects of general relativity; the total mass of the binary system is (2.14 +/-0.16) solar masses. The small measured mass function implies, in a statistical sense, that a very large fraction of this total mass is contained in the pulsar: (1.94+0.17 -0.19) solar masses (1-sigma); there is a 5% probability that the mass of this object is below 1.59 solar masses. With the possible exception of PSR J1748-2021B, this is the largest neutron star mass measured to date. When combined with similar measurements made previously for Terzan 5 I and J, we can exclude, in a statistical sense, the ``soft'' equations of state for dense neutron matter, implying that matter at the center of a neutron star is highly incompressible. There is also some evidence for a bimodal distribution of MSP masses, the reasons for that are not clear.
dc.description5 pages, one table, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of "40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More", August 12-17, 2007, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0024
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0024
dc.identifierAIPConf.Proc.983:459-463,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1063/1.2900274
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/191731
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleSuper-Massive Neutron Stars
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