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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

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

Based on the magnetic dipole radiation from the 3P2 neutron superfluid vortices (3P2NSFV) in neutron stars, we propose a model of glitch for young pulsars by oscillation between B phase and A phase of 3P2 Neutron superfluid. The main…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-04 Qiu-He Peng , Jing-Jing Liu , Chih-Kang Chou

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

Modeling the dynamics of the quantum fluids within a spinning-down neutron star gives a description consistent with observed pulsar magnetic field evolution and spin-period "glitches." The long-standing problem of large predicted excesses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ruderman

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

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

Strange Nuggets are believed to be among the relics of the early universe. They appear as dark matter due to their low charge-to-mass ratio. Their distribution is believed to be the same as that of dark matter. As such, they could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-10 Innocent Okwudili Eya , Evaristus Uzochukwu Iyida , Johnson Ozoemene , Urama , Augustine Ejikeme Chukwude

Pulsars are spinning neutron stars with very regular periods. These pulsars have, however, had instances where they exhibit a change in their periods. Older theories have shown that older pulsars have a tendency to skip and speed up. Newer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-19 Clayton Miller

Glitches in neutron stars originate from the sudden transfer of angular momentum between superfluid components and the observable crust. By modeling this glitch dynamics, including vortex motion, mutual friction, and angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-24 Zhonghao Tu , Ang Li

I review some of the ideas that have been proposed for the structure of neutron star interiors, and concentrate on the theoretical arguments for the existence of superfluidity in neutron stars. I also discuss the implications of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-27 J. A. Sauls

The standard explanation for large pulsar glitches involves transfer of angular momentum from an internal superfluid component to the star's crust. This model requires an instability to trigger the sudden unpinning of the vortices by means…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-18 K. Glampedakis , N. Andersson

Treatment of the vortex motion in the superfluids of the inner crust and the outer core of neutron stars is a key ingredient in modeling a number of pulsar phenomena, including glitches and magnetic field evolution. After recalculating the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Erbil Gügercinoğlu , M. Ali Alpar

Pulsar glitches, sudden jumps in frequency observed in many radio pulsars, may be the macroscopic manifestation of superfluid vortex avalanches on the microscopic scale. Small scale quantum mechanical simulations of vortex motion in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Brynmor Haskell

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

Neutron stars are believed to contain (neutron and proton) superfluids. I will give a summary of a macroscopic description of the interior of neutron stars, in a formulation which is general relativistic. I will also present recent results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 David Langlois

During the evolution of a pulsar, various phase transitions may occur in its dense interior, such as superfluid transition, as well as transition to various exotic phases of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We propose a technique which allows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-16 Partha Bagchi , Arpan Das , Biswanath Layek , Ajit M. Srivastava

Shear-driven turbulence in the superfluid interior of a neutron star exerts a fluctuating torque on the rigid crust, causing the rotational phase to walk randomly. The phase fluctuation spectrum is calculated analytically for incompressible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrew Melatos , Bennett Link

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

We discuss a new superfluid instability occuring in the interior of mature neutron stars with implications for freely precessing neutron stars. This short-wavelength instability is similar to the instability which is responsible for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Glampedakis , N. Andersson , D. I. Jones