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We report on the observation of a very small glitch observed for the first time in a millisecond pulsar, PSR B1821-24 located in the globular cluster M28. Timing observations were mainly conducted with the Nancay radiotelescope (France) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ismael Cognard , Donald C. Backer

A microphysics-agnostic meta-model of rotational glitches in rotation-powered pulsars is developed, wherein the globally averaged internal stress accumulates as a Brownian process between glitches, and a glitch is triggered once a critical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Julian B. Carlin , Andrew Melatos

We demonstrate that observations of glitches in the Vela pulsar can be used to investigate the strength of the crust-core coupling in a neutron star, and suggest that recovery from the glitch is dominated by torque exerted by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 William G. Newton , Sabrina Berger , Brynmor Haskell

We investigate the post-glitch rotational evolution of pulsars by analyzing the 2007 giant glitch of PSR J1718$-$3718 using a vortex creep model that incorporates both inward and outward nonlinear vortex motion, along with a time-varying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-05 Peng Liu , Zhonghao Tu , Jianping Yuan , Ang Li

The inter-glitch timing of the Vela pulsar is characterized by a constant second derivative of the rotation rate. This takes over after the post-glitch exponential relaxation, and is completed at about the time of the next glitch. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Onur Akbal , M. Ali Alpar , Sarah Buchner , David Pines

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

In certain pulsar timing experiments, where observations are scheduled approximately periodically (e.g. daily), timing models with significantly different frequencies (including but not limited to glitch models with different frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Liam Dunn , Marcus E. Lower , Andrew Melatos

Pulsar glitches offer an insight into the dynamics of superfluids in the high density interior of a neutron star. To model these phenomena, however, one needs to have an understanding of the dynamics of a turbulent array of superfluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Brynmor Haskell , Danai Antonopoulou , Carlo Barenghi

Pulsar timing at the Mt Pleasant observatory focused on Vela, which could be tracked for 18 hours of the day. These nearly continuous timing records extend over 24 years allowing a great insight into details of timing noise, micro glitches…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 R. Dodson , A. Deshpande , D. Lewis , P. McCulloch

Providing a link between magnetars and radio pulsars, high magnetic field neutron stars are ideal targets to investigate how bursting/magnetospheric activity and braking torque variations are connected to rotational glitches. The last…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Antonopoulou , P. Weltevrede , C. M. Espinoza , A. L. Watts , S. Johnston , R. M. Shannon , M. Kerr

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

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

Six glitches have been recently observed in the rotational frequency of the young pulsar PSR B1737-30 (J1740-3015) using the 25-m Nanshan telescope of Urumqi Observatory. With a total of 20 glitches in 20 years, it is one of the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Z. Zou , N. Wang , R. N. Manchester , J. O. Urama , G. Hobbs , Z. Y. Liu , J. P. Yuan

A cellular automaton model of pulsar glitches is described, based on the superfluid vortex unpinning paradigm. Recent analyses of pulsar glitch data suggest that glitches result from scale-invariant avalanches \citep{Melatos07a}, which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Warszawski , A. Melatos

The question of whether there are enough superfluid neutrons in the inner crust of neutron stars to explain pulsar glitches remains a topic of debate. Previous band structure calculations suggest that the entrainment effect significantly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-25 Giorgio Almirante , Michael Urban

Rotational irregularities are one of the prominent observational features that most pulsars exhibit. These glitches, which are sudden increases in spin angular velocity, remains an open problem. In this study, we have investigated the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Debojoti Kuzur

The interiors of mature neutron stars are expected to be superfluid. Superfluidity of matter on the microscopic scale can have a number of large scale, potentially observable consequences, as the superfluid component of the star can now…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-11 Vadym Khomenko , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell

The superfluid in the inner crust of neutron star is assumed to be the reservoir of momentum released in pulsar glitch. Recently, due to crustal entrainment, it is debatable whether the magnitude of the inner crust is sufficient to contain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-31 Innocent O. Eya , Johnson O. Urama , Augustine E. Chukwude

Braking indices are used to describe the evolution of pulsars rotation, and can offer insights into the braking mechanism that dominates the slow down. Here we discuss the main difficulties associated with measuring braking indices and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Cristóbal M. Espinoza

While pulsars possess exceptional rotational stability, large scale timing studies have revealed at least two distinct types of irregularities in their rotation: red timing noise and glitches. Using modern Bayesian techniques, we…