The lowest-luminosity quiescent neutron star transient: implications for strong field gravity and the neutron star EoS

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We propose to obtain a 300 ksec ACIS-S observation of the quiescent neutron star (NS) SXT 1H1905+000. Because of a non-detection during a previous 25 ksec Chandra ACIS-S observation, the NS quiescent luminosity is the lowest of all NS SXTs. It also has a low N_H, a well-known source distance, and an accurately known source position. These observations will eliminate the gap in the derived quiescent luminosities between NS and BH SXTs which is used as being evidence for a BH event horizon. Furthermore, this extremely low NS luminosity allows us to derive that 1H1905+000 harbors a cold, massive NS ruling out all equations of state (EoSs) except the stiffest EoSs for NSs with a nucleonic core. Constraining the NS EoS is one of the ultimate goals of NS studies.

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