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Glitches in neutron stars originate from the sudden transfer of angular momentum between superfluid components and the observable crust. By modeling this glitch dynamics, including vortex motion, mutual friction, and angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-24 Zhonghao Tu , Ang Li

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) with various periods that originate in the underlying magnetohydrodynamic processes of the flaring structures are detected repeatedly in the solar flare emissions. We apply a 2D cellular automaton (CA)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Nastaran Farhang , Farhad Shahbazi , Hossein Safari

Pulsar glitches are traditionally viewed as a manifestation of vortex dynamics associated with a neutron superfluid reservoir confined to the inner crust of the star. In this Letter we show that the non-dissipative entrainment coupling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 N. Andersson , K. Glampedakis , W. C. G. Ho , C. M. Espinoza

Glitches are rare spin-up events that punctuate the smooth slow-down of the rotation of pulsars. For the Vela pulsar and PSR J0537-6910, the glitch sizes and the times between consecutive events have clear preferred scales, contrary to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-02 J. R. Fuentes , C. M. Espinoza , A. Reisenegger

Pulsar glitches are rapid spin-up events that occur in the rotation of neutron stars, providing a valuable probe into the physics of the interiors of these objects. Long-term monitoring of a large number of pulsars facilitates the detection…

$\sim 6\%$ of all known pulsars have been observed to exhibit sudden spin-up events, known as glitches. For more than fifty years, these phenomena have played an important role in helping to understand pulsar (astro)physics. Based on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Shiqi Zhou , Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Jianping Yuan , Mingyu Ge , Cong Yu

Glitch is supposed to be a useful probe into pulsar's interior, but the underlying physics remains puzzling. The glitch activity may reflect a lower limit of the crustal moment of inertia in conventional neutron star models. Nevertheless,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Weihua Wang , Xiaoyu Lai , Enping Zhou , Jiguang Lu , Xiaoping Zheng , Renxin Xu

We connect nuclear forces to one of the most notable irregular behaviors observed in pulsars, already detected in approximately 6\% known pulsars, with increasingly accurate data expected from upcoming high-precision timing instruments on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-03 Zhong-Hao Tu , Ang Li

A simple one-dimensional cellular automaton model with threshold dynamics is introduced. The cumulative distribution of the size of the relaxations is analytically computed and behaves as a power law with an exponent equal to -1. This…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2008-08-20 Alejandro Tejedor , Samuel Ambroj , Javier B. Gómez , Amalio F. Pacheco

The glitch size, $ \Delta\nu/\nu $, inter-glitch time interval, $ t_{i} $ and frequency of glitches in pulsars are key parameters in discussing glitch phenomena. In this paper, the glitch sizes and inter-glitch time intervals were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-27 Innocent O. Eya , Johnson O. Urama , Augustine E. Chukwude

Few statistically compelling correlations are found in pulsar timing data between the size of a rotational glitch and the time to the preceding glitch (backward waiting time) or the succeeding glitch (forward waiting time), except for a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-11 A. Melatos , G. Howitt , W. Fulgenzi

Based on the magnetic dipole radiation from the 3P2 neutron superfluid vortices (3P2NSFV) in neutron stars, we propose a model of glitch for young pulsars by oscillation between B phase and A phase of 3P2 Neutron superfluid. The main…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-04 Qiu-He Peng , Jing-Jing Liu , Chih-Kang Chou

We investigate the chaotic spin-down behavior seen from some pulsars in terms of the nonlinear superfluid dynamics. To this end, we numerically solve the set of equations for the superfluid-normal matter system whose coupling is mediated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Mustafa Doğan , K. Yavuz Ekşi

Among the five pulsars with the most recorded rotational glitches, only PSR J0534$+$2200 is found to have an autocorrelation between consecutive glitch sizes which differs significantly from zero (Spearman correlation coefficient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Julian B. Carlin , Andrew Melatos

The observation of the first pulse-to-pulse glitch in the Vela pulsar opens a new window on the internal dynamics of neutron stars. We study the minimal three-component model for pulsar glitches by solving it with generic initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Alessandro Montoli , Marco Antonelli , Fabio Magistrelli , Pierre Pizzochero

High resolution, pulse to pulse observation of the 2016 Vela glitch and its relaxation provided an opportunity to probe the neutron star internal structure and dynamics with unprecedented detail. We use the observations of this glitch to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Erbil Gügercinoğlu , M. Ali Alpar

Glitches are sudden spin-up events that punctuate the steady spin down of pulsars and are thought to be due to the presence of a superfluid component within neutron stars. The precise glitch mechanism and its trigger, however, remain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 C. M. Espinoza , D. Antonopoulou , B. W. Stappers , A. Watts , A. G. Lyne

We study the pulsar timing properties and the data analysis methods during glitch recoveries. In some cases one first fits the time-of-arrivals (TOAs) to obtain the "time-averaged" frequency $\nu$ and its first derivative $\dot\nu$, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-12 Yi Xie , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Gravitational clustering of a random distribution of point masses is dominated by the effective short-range interactions due to large-scale isotropy. We introduce a one-dimensional cellular automaton to reproduce this effect in the most…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Roya Mohayaee , Luciano Pietronero

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