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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$\begingroup$ See here, for example slac.stanford.edu/econf/C010815/docs/heiselberg.pdf Did you try searching something like "neutron star mass vs radius" on a search engine? $\endgroup$– Daddy KropotkinCommented Sep 8, 2021 at 22:23
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$\begingroup$ Yeah and all that came up was people looking for EOS's $\endgroup$– zucculentCommented Sep 8, 2021 at 22:53
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$\begingroup$ Did you look at page two of the document I linked? Do you think the EOS matters here? $\endgroup$– Daddy KropotkinCommented Sep 8, 2021 at 23:09
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2$\begingroup$ 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. $\endgroup$– zucculentCommented Sep 8, 2021 at 23:22
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