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Radio pulsar glitches probe far-from-equilibrium processes involving stress accumulation and relaxation in neutron star interiors. Previous studies of glitch rates have focused on individual pulsars with as many recorded glitches as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-07 Margaret Millhouse , Andrew Melatos , George Howitt , Julian B. Carlin , Liam Dunn , Gregory Ashton

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

Glitches are the observational manifestations of superfluidity inside neutron stars. The aim of this paper is to describe an automated glitch detection pipeline, which can alert the observers on possible real-time detection of rotational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-12 Jaikhomba Singha , Avishek Basu , M. A. Krishnakumar , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. Arumugam

Glitches detected in pulsar timing observations at the Nanshan radio telescope of Urumqi Observatory between 2002 July and 2008 December are presented. In total, 29 glitches were detected in 19 young pulsars, with this being the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 J. P. Yuan , N. Wang , R. N. Manchester , Z. Y. Liu

Recent observation of a sudden spin down, occurring on a timescale not exceeding two weeks, of the magnetar 1E2259+586 (see Archibald et al. 2013, where this event was dubbed an `anti-glitch') has not still received any interpretation in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-04 Elena Kantor , Mikhail Gusakov

Glitches are commonly observed for pulsars, which are explained by various mechanisms. One hypothesis attributes the glitch effect to the instantaneous moment of inertia change of the whole star caused by a starquake, which is similar to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ruipeng Lu , Han Yue , Xiaoyu Lai , Weihua Wang , Shenjian Zhang , Renxin Xu

The 2016 Vela glitch observed by the Mt Pleasant radio telescope provides the first opportunity to study pulse-to-pulse dynamics of a pulsar glitch, opening up new possibilities to study the neutron star's interior. We fit models of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 Gregory Ashton , Paul D. Lasky , Vanessa Graber , Jim Palfreyman

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

The first large-scale quantum mechanical simulations of pulsar glitches are presented, using a Gross-Pitaevskii model of the crust-superfluid system in the presence of pinning. Power-law distributions of simulated glitch sizes are obtained,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Warszawski , A. Melatos

Pulsar glitch is a phenomenon characterized by abrupt changes in the spin period over less than a minute. We present a comprehensive analysis of glitches in four gamma-ray pulsars by combining the timing observation data from \textit{Fermi}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 P. Liu , J. -P. Yuan , M. -Y. Ge , W. -T. Ye , S. -Q. Zhou , S. -J. Dang , Z. -R. Zhou , E. Gügercinoğlu , Z. H. Tu , P. Wang , A. Li , D. Li , N. Wang

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

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

Pulsars are the most numerous class of Galactic gamma-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Young pulsars occasionally experience sudden timing discontinuities called glitches, characterized by rapid changes in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-08 Giovanni Cozzolongo , Alessio Fiori , Massimiliano Razzano , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

The basic framework of the superfluid vortex model for pulsar glitches, though, is well accepted; there is a lack of consensus on the possible trigger mechanism responsible for the simultaneous release of a large number ($\sim 10^{17}$) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-02 Biswanath Layek , Brijesh Kumar Saini , Deepthi Godaba Venkata

We consider the pulsar rotation assuming that the neutron star consists of crust component (which rotation is observed) and two core components. One of the core components contains pinned superfluid which can, for some reasons, suddenly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-19 D. P. Barsukov , O. A. Goglichidze , K. Y. Kraav , M. V. Vorontsov

Large pulsar glitches (like the ones detected in the Vela) are though to be a consequence of the superfluid component present in the interior of mature neutron stars. However strong entrainment challenges this picture. We study the impact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-23 Marco Antonelli , Pierre Pizzochero

Context: The Crab pulsar underwent its largest timing glitch on 2017 Nov 8. The event was discovered at radio wavelengths, and was followed at soft X-ray energies by observatories, such as XPNAV and NICER. aims: This work aims to compare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 M. Vivekanand

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

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

The Crab pulsar has suffered in 1975 and 1989 two glitches in which the frequency did not relaxed to the extrapolated pre-glitch value but rather spun up showing long-term changes in the frequency derivative dot Omega. This particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. P. Allen , J. E. Horvath