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We revisit the mechanism of vortex unpinning caused by the neutron-vortex scattering \cite{prad1} in the inner crust of a pulsar. The strain energy released by the crustquake is assumed to be absorbed in some part of the inner crust and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Biswanath Layek , Deepthi Godaba Venkata , Pradeepkumar Yadav

There are currently two well-accepted models that explain how pulsars exhibit glitches, sudden changes in their regular rotational spin-down. According to the starquake model, the glitch healing parameter, Q, which is measurable in some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fronefield Crawford , Marek Demianski

The dynamics of quantised vorticity in neutron star interiors is at the heart of most pulsar glitch models. However, the large number of vortices (up to $\approx 10^{13}$) involved in a glitch and the huge disparity in scales between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Vadym Khomenko , 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 2016-08-30 B. Link , R. I. Epstein , J. M. Lattimer

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

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

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

During the spin-up phase of a large pulsar glitch - a sudden decrease of the rotational period of a neutron star - the angular velocity of the star may overshoot, namely reach values greater than that observed for the new post-glitch…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Pierre Pizzochero , Alessandro Montoli , Marco Antonelli

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

Pulsars show two classes of rotational irregularities that can be used to understand neutron-star interiors and magnetospheres: glitches and timing noise. Here we present an analysis of the Vela pulsar spanning nearly 21 yr of observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 R. M. Shannon , L. T. Lentati , M. Kerr , S. Johnston , G. Hobbs , R. N. Manchester

Pulsar glitches are sudden increase in their spin frequency, in most cases followed by the long timescale recovery process. As of this writing, about 546 glitches have been reported in 188 pulsars, the Crab pulsar is a special one with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-09 Weihua Wang , Xiaoping Zheng

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

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

Large pulsar glitches seem to be common to all radio pulsars and to exhibit a universal behaviour connecting the rate of occurrence, event size and interglitch relaxation that can be explained if the glitches are due to angular momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ali Alpar

Timing observations from the Nanshan 26-m radio telescope for nine pulsars between 2000 and 2014 have been used to search for glitches. The data span for nine pulsars ranges from 11.6 to 14.2 years. From the total of 114 yr of pulsar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Zu-Rong Zhou , Jing-Bo Wang , Na Wang , Jian-Ping Yuan , Fei-Fei Kou , Shi-Jun Dang

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

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Jahan-Miri

Glitches -- sudden increases in spin rate -- are observed in many pulsars. One mechanism advanced to explain glitches in the youngest pulsars is that they are caused by a starquake, a sudden rearrangement of the crust of the neutron star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 L. Keer , D. I. Jones

A systematic, semi-automated search for pulsar glitches in the first UTMOST public data release is presented. The search is carried out using a hidden Markov model which incorporates both glitches and timing noise into the model of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 L. Dunn , A. Melatos , S. Suvorova , W. Moran , R. J. Evans , S. Osłowski , M. E. Lower , M. Bailes , C. Flynn , V. Gupta

The pulsar glitches are generally assumed to be an apparent manifestation of the superfluid interior of the neutron stars. Most of them were discovered and extensively studied by continuous monitoring in the radio wavelengths. The Fermi-LAT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 E. V. Sokolova , A. G. Panin

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