Posterior probability distributions of six high-density RMF parameters using DD-ME2 at subsaturation density. (IMAGE)

Nuclear Science and Techniques

Posterior probability distributions of six high-density RMF parameters using DD-ME2 at subsaturation density.

Caption

This figure shows how the allowed parameter space changes when the assumed uncertainty of the canonical neutron-star radius is reduced from 1.0 km to 0.5 km and then to 0.2 km. The main message is that the high-precision case produces a much smaller credible region, indicating that a 0.2-km radius measurement would strongly constrain the high-density behavior of the model.

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Wen-Jie Xie

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