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SUMMARY:Dense matter and neutron stars: what we have learned from NICE
 R\, Physics Department Colloquium\, M. Coleman Miller\, University of 
 Maryland
DESCRIPTION:Precise and reliable measurements of neutron star radii an
 d other properties are essential to our understanding of cold\, cataly
 zed matter beyond nuclear saturation density.  Over the last fifteen y
 ears\, measurements of high-mass neutron stars\, gravitational waves f
 rom the double neutron star merger GW170817\, and X-ray observations h
 ave dramatically improved our understanding of neutron star structure.
   In particular\, NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (N
 ICER) satellite has provided high-quality data sets that have yielded 
 published measurements of the mass and radius of several neutron stars
 .  I will discuss our group's analyses of these pulsars and will in pa
 rticular discuss our assumptions and potential systematic errors\, to 
 help in the assessment of our work.  I will also discuss the implicati
 ons of our results\, combined with other observations\, for the proper
 ties of the dense matter in the cores of neutron stars.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=9227
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