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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

There appears to be more than one statistically different populations in the energy distribution of glitches, strongly indicative of different mechanisms accessing different energy ranges responsible for them.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-27 Sushan Konar , Mihir Arjunwadkar

Glitch is supposed to be a useful probe into pulsar's interior, but the underlying physics remains puzzling. The glitch activity may reflect a lower limit of the crustal moment of inertia in conventional neutron star models. Nevertheless,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Weihua Wang , Xiaoyu Lai , Enping Zhou , Jiguang Lu , Xiaoping Zheng , Renxin Xu

Isolated neutron stars undergoing non-radial oscillations are expected to emit gravitational waves in the kilohertz frequency range. To date, radio astronomers have located about 1,300 pulsars, and can estimate that there are about 2 times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 G. L. Comer

Large pulsar frequency glitches are generally interpreted as sudden transfers of angular momentum between the neutron superfluid permeating the inner crust and the rest of the star. Despite the absence of viscous drag, the neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-12 N. Chamel

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

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

Context. Pulsars have a very stable rotation. However, sudden increases in their rotation frequency known as glitches, perturb their evolution. While large glitches are commonly detected, small glitches are harder to detect because of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 E. Zubieta , F. Garcia , S. del Palacio , S. B. Araujo Furlan , G. Gancio , C. O. Lousto , J. A. Combi , C. M. Espinoza

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

The rotation of more than 700 pulsars has been monitored using the 76-m Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank. Here we report on a new search for glitches in the observations, revealing 128 new glitches in the rotation of 63 pulsars. Combining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Cristobal M. Espinoza , Andrew G. Lyne , Ben W. Stappers , Michael Kramer

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

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

Pulsar glitches are attributed to the sudden re-coupling of very weakly coupled large scale superfluid components in the neutron star interior. This process leads to rapid exchange of angular momentum and an increase in spin frequency. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-22 Brynmor Haskell , Vadym Khomenko , Marco Antonelli , Danai Antonopoulou

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

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

Continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars could provide an invaluable resource to learn about their interior physics. A common search method involves matched filtering a modeled template against the noisy gravitational-wave data to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-26 Gregory Ashton , Reinhard Prix , David Ian Jones

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

There are two types of timing irregularities seen in pulsars: glitches and timing noise. Both of these phenomena can help us probe the interior of such exotic objects. This article presents a brief overview of the observational and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-28 Jaikhomba Singha , Bhal Chandra Joshi , Debades Bandyopadhyay , Himanshu Grover , Shantanu Desai , P. Arumugam , Sarmistha Banik

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

Pulsar-like compact stars provide us a unique laboratory to explore properties of dense matter at supra-nuclear densities. One of the models for pulsar-like stars is that they are totally composed of "strangeons", and in this paper we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 X. Y. Lai , C. A. Yun , J. G. Lu , G. L. Lv , Z. J. Wang , R. X. Xu