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Pulsar glitches are sudden increases in the spin frequency of an otherwise steadily spinning down neutron star. These events are thought to represent a direct probe of the dynamics of the superfluid interior of the star. However glitches…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Brynmor Haskell , Danai Antonopoulou

Pulsar glitches are thought to be probes of the superfluid interior of neutron stars. These sudden jumps in frequency observed in many pulsars are generally assumed to be the macroscopic manifestation of superfluid vortex motion on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Brynmor Haskell

Radio pulsars provide us with some of the most stable clocks in the universe. Nevertheless several pulsars exhibit sudden spin-up events, known as glitches. More than forty years after their first discovery, the exact origin of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Brynmor Haskell , Andrew Melatos

Glitches are sudden increases in the rotation rate $\nu$ of neutron stars, which are thought to be driven by the neutron superfluid inside the star. The Vela pulsar presents a comparatively high rate of glitches, with 21 events reported…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 C. M. Espinoza , D. Antonopoulou , R. Dodson , M. Stepanova , A. Scherer

The long-term evolution of the relative rotation of the core superfluid in a neutron star with respect to the rest of the star, at different radial distances from the rotation axis, is determined through model calculations. The core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Jahan-Miri

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

Spinning neutron stars, when observed as pulsars, are seen to undergo occasional spin-up events known as glitches. Despite several decades of study, the physical mechanisms responsible for glitches are still not well understood, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 Brynmor Haskell , David Ian Jones

Pulsar glitches, i.e. the sudden spin-ups of pulsars, have been detected for most pulsars that we known. The mechanism giving rise to this kind of phenomenon is uncertain, although a large data set has been built. In the framework of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 X. Y. Lai , R. X. Xu

We present a statistical study of the glitch population and the behaviour of the glitch activity across the known population of neutron stars. An unbiased glitch database was put together based on systematic searches of radio timing data of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-16 J. R. Fuentes , C. M. Espinoza , A. Reisenegger , B. W. Stappers , B. Shaw , A. G. Lyne

Observations of pulsar glitches remain a powerful tool for studying the interior of neutron stars. Many of the observed glitch properties are shown to result from the evolution of glitches in the different manifestations of neutron stars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-17 J. O. Urama , B. C. Joshi , A. E. Chukwude

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…

Neutron stars or pulsars are very rapidly rotating compact stars with extremely high density. One of the unsolved long-standing problems of these enigmatic celestial bodies is the origin of pulsars' glitches, i.e., the sudden rapid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-20 Giacomo Marmorini , Shigehiro Yasui , Muneto Nitta

A glitch is a rare and sudden increase in the otherwise steadily decreasing rotation rate of a pulsar. Its cause is widely attributed to the transfer of angular momentum to the crust of the star from the array of superfluid vortices…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Anantharaman Sekharipuram Viswanathan , Dipankar Bhattacharya

$\sim 6\%$ 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

The number of sudden spin-ups in radio pulsars known as pulsar glitches has increased over the years. Though a consensus has not been reached with regards to the actual cause of the phenomenon, the electromagnetic braking torque on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Innocent O. Eya , Jibrin A. Alhassan , Evaristus U. Iyida , Augustine E. Chukwude , Johnson O. Urama

Neutron stars are observed to undergo small, abrupt rotational speed-up. This phenomenon is known as glitch. In pulsar timing observations, detection of a neutron star glitch is constrained by the time of occurrence of the event relative to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-21 Meng Yu , Qinjian Liu

Pulsars show a steady decrease in their rotational frequency, occasionally interrupted by sudden spin-ups called glitches, whose physical origin is still a mystery. One suggested explanation for at least the small glitches are starquakes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 J. A. Rencoret , C. Aguilera-Gómez , A. Reisenegger

Glitches are sudden spin-up events that interrupt the gradual spin-down of rotating neutron stars. They are believed to arise from the rapid unpinning of vortices in the neutron star inner crust. The analogy between the inner crust of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-20 Thomas Bland , Francesca Ferlaino , Massimo Mannarelli , Elena Poli , Silvia Trabucco

The presence of superfluid phases in the interior of a neutron star affects its dynamics, as neutrons can flow relative to the non-superfluid (normal) components of the star with little or no viscosity. A probe of superfluidity comes from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-14 Marco Antonelli , Alessandro Montoli , Pierre Pizzochero

Many radio pulsars exhibit glitches wherein the star's spin rate increases fractionally by $\sim 10^{-10} - 10^{-6}$. Glitches are ascribed to variable coupling between the neutron star crust and its superfluid interior. With the aim of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Michelle B. Larson , Bennett Link
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