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Almost all pulsars with anomalous positive $\ddot \Omega $ measurements (corresponding to anomalous braking indices in the range 5$<n<$100), including all the pulsars with observed large glitches ($\Delta\Omega/\Omega$ $>$ 10$^{-7}$) as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Alpar , A. Baykal

The departure of all measured pulsar braking indexes from the "canonical" dipole value 3 has been attributed to several causes in the past. Careful monitoring of the Crab pulsar has revealed permanent changes in the spin-down rate which are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 J. E. Horvath

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

Measuring a pulsar's rotational evolution is crucial to understanding the nature of the pulsar. Here we provide updated timing models for the rotational evolution of six pulsars, five of which are rotation phase-connected using primarily…

We present timing solutions and spin properties of the young pulsar PSR B0540-69 from analysis of 15.8 yr of data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. We perform a partially phase-coherent timing analysis in order to mitigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Robert D. Ferdman , Robert F. Archibald , Victoria M. Kaspi

Pulsars are stars that emit electromagnetic radiation in well-defined time intervals. The frequency of such pulses decays with time as is quantified by the {\it braking index} ($n$). In the canonical model $n = 3$ for all pulsars, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 H. O. Oliveira , N. S. Magalhaes , R. M. Marinho , G. A. Carvalho , C. Frajuca

We discuss the unique spin evolution of the young X-ray pulsar PSR J0537-6910, a system in which the regular spin down is interrupted by glitches every few months. Drawing on the complete timing data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-13 N. Andersson , D. Antonopoulou , C. M. Espinoza , B. Haskell , W. C. G. Ho

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

Detailed structures of the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45, with a period of $89.33$ milliseconds) are predicted by adopting a recently-constructed unified treatment of all parts of neutron stars: the outer crust, the inner crust and the core…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-31 A. Li , J. M. Dong , J. B. Wang , R. X. Xu

We report here on the first results of a systematic monitoring of southern glitching pulsars at the Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy that started in the year 2019. We detected a major glitch in the Vela pulsar (PSR J0835$-$4510) and…

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

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

The way pulsars spin down is not understood in detail, but a number of possible physical mechanisms produce a spin-down rate that scales as a power of the rotation rate ($\dot\nu\propto-\nu^n$), with the power-law index $n$ called the…

Pulsar glitches provide a unique way to study neutron star microphysics because short post-glitch dynamics are directly linked to strong frictional processes on small scales. To illustrate this connection between macroscopic observables and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Vanessa Graber , Andrew Cumming , Nils Andersson

PSR J1846-0258 is an object which straddles the boundary between magnetars and rotation powered pulsars. Though behaving for many years as a rotation-powered pulsar, in 2006, it exhibited distinctly magnetar-like behavior - emitting several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 R. F. Archibald , V. M. Kaspi , A. P. Beardmore , N. Gehrels , J. A. Kennea

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

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 pulsar J0537$-$6910 undergoes spin-up glitches more frequently than any other known pulsar, at a rate of roughly thrice per year. Its glitches are typically large and accompanied by spin-down rate changes $\Delta\dot\nu$ that partially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Onur Akbal , M. Ali Alpar , Danai Antonopoulou , Cristóbal M. Espinoza

We present the first phase-coherent measurement of a braking index for the young, energetic rotation-powered pulsar PSR J1846-0258. This 324 ms pulsar is located at the center of the supernova remnant Kes 75 and has a characteristic age of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Margaret A. Livingstone , Victoria M. Kaspi , E. V. Gotthelf , Lucien Kuiper

PSR B0540-69 has braking index measurement in its persistent state: n=2.129 \pm 0.012. Recently, it is reported to have spin-down state changes: a suddenly 36 % increase in the spin-down rate. Combining the persistent state braking index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 F. F. Kou , Z. W. Ou , H. Tong