Measuring the Masses of Neutron Stars

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006msngr.126...27k&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 126, p. 27-31

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Until a few years ago the common understanding was that neutron stars, the compact remnants of massive stars, have a canonical mass of about 1.4 MA. Recent observations with VLT/UVES support the view that the neutron stars in high-mass X-ray binaries display a relatively large spread in mass, ranging from the theoretical lower mass limit of 1 MA up to over 2 MA. Such a mass distribution provides important information on the formation mechanism of neutron stars (i.e. the supernovae), and on the (unknown) behaviour of matter at supranuclear densities.

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