Author(s): Mariska Hoogkamer, Nathan Rutherford, Daniela Huppenkothen, Benjamin Ricketts, Anna L. Watts, Melissa Mendes, Isak Svensson, Achim Schwenk, Michael Kramer, Kai Hebeler, Tuomo Salmi, and Devarshi Choudhury
NICER observations of x-ray pulsars can put constraints on the mass and radius of neutron stars which constrain the nuclear equation of state. However, modeling the pulse profile as a function of mass and radius is a computationally...