Type-I X-ray bursts are rapidly brightening phenomena triggered by the nuclear burning of light elements near the surface of accreting neutron stars. Observed light curves are sensitive to many model parameters. We focus on the uncertainties of the nuclear equation of states, which determines the mass and radius of neutron stars. Regarding the observations, we focus on one of the regular...
Accretion onto a neutron star induces nuclear reactions which heat the crust. By fitting crust models to the observed thermal evolution of the neutron star after accretion halts and the neutron star enters quiescence, we obtain constraints on the composition and heating of the neutron star crust, notably the crust impurity concentration and the amount of heat deposited per accreted nucleon....
