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Pinning of superfluid vortices to magnetic flux tubes in the outer core of a neutron star supports a velocity difference of $\sim 10^5$ \cms\ between the neutron superfluid and the proton-electron fluid as the star spins down. Under the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Bennett Link

Glitches are sudden spin-up events of pulsars and are usually thought to be induced by unpinning of neutron superfluid vortices in pulsar crusts. Unpinning and repinning of superfluid vortices, and even thermoelectric effects induced by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-13 Shuang Du

Pulsar glitches offer an insight into the dynamics of superfluids in the high density interior of a neutron star. To model these phenomena, however, one needs to have an understanding of the dynamics of a turbulent array of superfluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Brynmor Haskell , Danai Antonopoulou , Carlo Barenghi

Pulsars are highly magnetized rotating neutron stars with a very stable rotation speed. Irrespective of their stable rotation rate, many pulsars have been observed with the sudden jump in the rotation rate, which is known as pulsar glitch.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 Avishek Basu , Prasanta Char , Rana Nandi , Bhal Chandra Joshi , Debades Bandyopadhyay

A rotating superfluid forms an array of quantized vortex lines which determine its angular velocity. The spasmodic evolution of the array under the influence of deceleration, dissipation, and pinning forces is thought to be responsible for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 G. Howitt , A. Melatos , B. Haskell

Pulsar glitches, sudden jumps in frequency in otherwise steadily spinning down radio pulsars, offer a unique glimpse into the superfluid interior of neutron stars. The exact trigger of these events remains, however, elusive and this has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-16 Pierre Pizzochero , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell , Stefano Seveso

Glitches in pulsars are likely to trigger oscillation modes in the fluid interior of neutron stars. We examined these oscillations specifically at r-mode frequencies. The excited r-modes will emit gravitational waves and can have long…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-28 I. Santiago-Prieto , I. S. Heng , D. I. Jones , J. Clark

Pulsars are known for their superb timing precision, although glitches can interrupt the regular timing behavior when the stars are young. These glitches are thought to be caused by interactions between normal and superfluid matter in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Wynn C. G. Ho , Cristobal M. Espinoza , Danai Antonopoulou , Nils Andersson

Pulsar glitches-the sudden spin-up in the rotational frequency of a neutron star-suggest the existence of an angular-momentum reservoir confined to the inner crust of the neutron star. Large and regular glitches observed in the Vela pulsar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Piekarewicz , F. J. Fattoyev , C. J. Horowitz

Pulsar glitches are attributed to the sudden re-coupling of very weakly coupled large scale superfluid components in the neutron star interior. This process leads to rapid exchange of angular momentum and an increase in spin frequency. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-22 Brynmor Haskell , Vadym Khomenko , Marco Antonelli , Danai Antonopoulou

Timing of the Crab and Vela pulsars have recently revealed very peculiar evolutions of their spin frequency during the early stage of a glitch. We show that these differences can be interpreted from the interactions between neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Aurélien Sourie , Nicolas Chamel

Neutron star glitches are commonly believed to occur, when angular momentum is transferred suddenly from the star's interior to the crust by the collective unpinning and repinning of large numbers of superfluid vortices. In general, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 J. R. Lönnborn , A. Melatos , B. Haskell

Glitches, spin-up events in neutron stars, are of prime interest as they reveal properties of nuclear matter at subnuclear densities. We numerically investigate the glitch mechanism due to vortex unpinning using analogies between neutron…

In this paper we present a new mechanism for rationalizing, explaining and predicting pulsar glitches. Our new mechanism is based upon the concepts of type II superconductivity and the Bradlow bound.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-29 Thando Nkomozake

A glitch of a pulsar is known as a sudden increase in the spin frequency and spin-down rate (frequency time derivative), and it can be caused by a sudden rel\ ease of the stress built up in the solid crust of the star or pinned vortices in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 J. Zhao , C. W. Ng , L. C. C. Lin , J. Takata , Y. Cai , C. P. Hu , D. C. C. Yen , P. H. T. Tam , C. Y. Hui , A. K. H. Kong , K. S. Cheng

Three sudden spin-down events, termed `anti-glitches', were recently discovered in the accreting pulsar NGC 300 ULX-1 by the \textit{Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer} (NICER) mission. Unlike previous anti-glitches detected in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 G. Howitt , A. Melatos

The observed large rates of spinning down after glitches in some radio pulsars have been previously explained in terms of a long-term spin-up behavior of a superfluid part of the crust of neutron stars. We argue that the suggested mechanism…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Jahan-Miri

We study the superfluid dynamics of the outer core of neutron stars by means of a hydrodynamic model made of a neutronic superfluid and a protonic superconductor, coupled by both the dynamic entrainment and the Skyrme SLy4 nucleon-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-23 J. A. Gil Granados , A. Muñoz Mateo , X. Viñas

The motion of superfluid vortices in a neutron star crust is at the heart of most theories of pulsar glitches. Pinning of vortices to ions can decouple the superfluid from the crust and create a reservoir of angular momentum. Sudden large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Brynmor Haskell , Andrew Melatos

Pulsar glitches are generally viewed as stochastic events driven by sudden angular momentum transfer from the neutron star's superfluid interior to its crust. Except two peculiar pulsars with quasi-periodic glitches, this stochastic view…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Pei-Xin Zhu , Xiao-Ping Zheng , Quan Cheng , Chenghui Niu , Erbil Gügercinoğlu