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As the most extensively and continuously monitored neutron star, the Crab pulsar serves as representative of the earliest evolutionary stage. Its unique and complex glitch phenomenology provides an unparalleled testing ground for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Pei-Xin Zhu , Xiao-Ping Zheng

Many pulsars are observed to "glitch", i.e. show sudden jumps in their rotational frequency $\nu$, some of which can be as large as $\Delta \nu/\nu\approx 10^{-6}-10^{-5}$ in a subset of pulsars known as giant glitchers. Recently Pizzochero…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Stefano Seveso , Pierre M. Pizzochero , Brynmor Haskell

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

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

We examine the thermal and dynamical response of a neutron star to a sudden perturbation of the inner crust temperature. During the star's evolution, starquakes and other processes may deposit $\gap 10^{42}$ ergs, causing significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Link , R. I. Epstein

Young pulsars deviate from a perfectly regular spin-down by two non-deterministic phenomena: impulsive glitches and timing noise. Both phenomena are interesting per se, and may provide insights into the superfluid properties of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-17 Marco Antonelli , Avishek Basu , Brynmor Haskell

With the aim of constraining the structural properties of neutron stars and the equation of state of dense matter, we study sudden spin-ups, glitches, occurring in the Vela pulsar and in six other pulsars. We present evidence that glitches…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Bennett Link , Richard I. Epstein , James M. Lattimer

From 2000 to 2010, monitoring of radio emission from the Crab pulsar at Xinjiang Observatory detected a total of nine glitches. The occurrence of glitches appears to be a random process as described by previous researches. A persistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-21 Jingbo Wang , Na Wang , Hao Tong , Jianping Yuan

Several mechanisms for gravitational wave (GW) emission are believed to be associated with pulsar glitches. This emission may be split between long duration continuous waves and short duration bursts. In the Advanced LIGO era, searches for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-24 Matthew Ball , Raymond Frey

Glitches are common phenomena in pulsars. After each glitch, there is usually a permanent increase in the pulsar's spin-down rate. Therefore a pulsar's present spin-down rate may be much higher than its initial value. Thus the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. R. Lin , S. N. Zhang

Glitches are sudden jumps in the spin frequency of pulsars believed to originate in the superfluid interior of neutron stars. Superfluid flow in a model neutron star is simulated by solving the equations of motion of a two-component…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 G. Howitt , B. Haskell , A. Melatos

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…

The Crab Nebula is likely to be expanding into freely expanding supernova ejecta, although the energy in the ejecta may be less than is typical for a Type II supernova. Pulsar nebulae much younger than the Crab have not been found and could…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roger A. Chevalier

Many pulsars exhibit a peculiar behaviour in their pulse profile of a sudden increase in their rotational period, which is popularly known as a pulsar glitch. Some of them show giant glitches with relative amplitude $\Delta\Omega/\Omega…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Yogeesh N. , Anil Kumar , Monika Sinha

It is shown that the slow glitches in the spin rate of the pulsar B1822-09 can be explained by the reconstruction of the neutron star shape, which is not matched with the star rotation axis. Owing to the evolution of the inclination angle,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. N. Istomin , T. V. Shabanova

Variation in the angle $\alpha$ between a pulsar's rotational and magnetic axes would change the torque and spin-down rate. We show that sudden increases in $\alpha$, coincident with glitches, could be responsible for the persistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Link , R. I. Epstein

Although pulsars are one of the most stable clocks in the universe, many of them are observed to 'glitch', i.e. to suddenly increase their spin frequency (\nu) with fractional increases that range from \Delta\nu/\nu \approx 10^{-11} to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Brynmor Haskell , Pierre Pizzochero , Trevor Sidery

TThe glitch of anomalous X-ray pulsars \& soft gamma repeaters (AXP/SGRs) usually accompanied with detectable energy releases manifesting as X-ray bursts or outbursts, while the glitch of some pulsars like Vela release negligible energy. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-21 Jiguang Lu , Enping Zhou

The "glitch crisis" of Vela-like pulsars has been a great debate recently. It might challenge the standard two-component glitch model, because large fractions of superfluid neutrons are thought to be entrained in the lattices of the crust…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-20 Ang Li , Jingbo Wang , Lijing Shao , Ren-Xin Xu

Pulsars are rapidly spinning and highly magnetized neutron stars, with highly stable rotational period and gradual spin-down over a long timescale due to the loss of radiation. Glitches refer to the events that suddenly increase the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-06 C. W. Ng , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng