<p>I'm aware that we currently don't have an equation of state for the radius of a neutron star, because we don't know what happens to neutrons at their cores, and because the equations involved with neutron degenerate matter are horrendous. Is there enough data to make a chart of neutron stars as data points, with one axis being their masses, and the other being their radii?</p>

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2021-09-08T22:23:26.407Z
See here, for example https://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C010815/docs/heiselberg.pdf Did you try searching something like "neutron star mass vs radius" on a search engine?
Daddy Kropotkin
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2021-09-08T22:53:51.997Z
Yeah and all that came up was people looking for EOS's
zucculent
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2021-09-08T23:09:31.213Z
Did you look at page two of the document I linked? Do you think the EOS matters here?
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2021-09-08T23:22:52.350Z
I meant EOS's were all that came up when I googled my question. This paper clearly has what I wanted. Thank you for linking it. Now all that's left is for me to figure out what all the acronyms are saying.
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Is there a mass-vs-radius chart for neutron stars?
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# Is there a mass-vs-radius chart for neutron stars?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-09-08)

I'm aware that we currently don't have an equation of state for the radius of a neutron star, because we don't know what happens to neutrons at their cores, and because the equations involved with neutron degenerate matter are horrendous. Is there enough data to make a chart of neutron stars as data points, with one axis being their masses, and the other being their radii?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: See here, for example https://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C010815/docs/heiselberg.pdf Did you try searching something like "neutron star mass vs radius" on a search engine?  
> **username_0**: Yeah and all that came up was people looking for EOS's  
> **username_1**: Did you look at page two of the document I linked? Do you think the EOS matters here?  
> **username_0**: I meant EOS's were all that came up when I googled my question. This paper clearly has what I wanted. Thank you for linking it. Now all that's left is for me to figure out what all the acronyms are saying.  

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