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Neutron stars are known to show accelerated spin-up of their rotational frequency called a glitch. Highly magnetized rotating neutron stars (pulsars) are frequently observed by radio telescopes (and in other frequencies), where the glitch…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Dixeena Lopez , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Marco Drago , David Keitel , Claudia Lazzaro , Giovanni Andrea Prodi

Large pulsar glitches seem to be common to all radio pulsars and to exhibit a universal behaviour connecting the rate of occurrence, event size and interglitch relaxation that can be explained if the glitches are due to angular momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ali Alpar

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

Several glitches have been observed in young, isolated radio pulsars, while a clear detection in accretion-powered X-ray pulsars is still lacking. We use the Pizzochero snowplow model for pulsar glitches as well as starquake models to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 L. Ducci , P. M. Pizzochero , V. Doroshenko , A. Santangelo , S. Mereghetti , C. Ferrigno

Pulsar glitches are a potential source of gravitational waves for current and future interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Some pulsar glitch events were observed by radio and X-ray telescopes during the fifth LIGO science run. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuhiro Hayama , Shantanu Desai , Soumya D. Mohanty , Malik Rakhmanov , Tiffany Summerscales , Sanichiro Yoshida

Context. A small number of pulsar glitches have been identified as anti-glitches or spin-down glitches, where the overall contribution to the pulsar's rotation frequency is negative. A notable example of a spin-down glitch was observed in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 A. G. Panin , E. V. Sokolova

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

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

Timing observations of rapidly rotating neutron stars revealed a great number of glitches, observed both from canonical radio pulsars and magnetars. Among them, 76 glitches have shown exponential relaxation(s) with characteristic decay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-27 Erbil Gügercinoğlu

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

A common way to calculate the glitch activity of a pulsar is an ordinary linear regression of the observed cumulative glitch history. This method however is likely to underestimate the errors on the activity, as it implicitly assumes a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-22 Alessandro Montoli , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell , Pierre Pizzochero

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

Glitch activity refers to the mean increase in pulsar spin frequency per year due to rotational glitches. It is an important tool for studying super-nuclear matter using neutron star interiors as templates. Glitch events are typically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-22 Innocent Okwudili Eya , Evaristus Uzochukwu Iyida

Glitches are sudden jumps in the spin frequency of pulsars believed to originate in the superfluid interior of neutron stars. Superfluid flow in a model neutron star is simulated by solving the equations of motion of a two-component…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 G. Howitt , B. Haskell , A. Melatos

About 76 glitches in 25 pulsars have been reported to date. Most glitches are `giant', with fractional increases of frequency dnu_0/nu_0 ~ 10^{-6}. 25 glitches were analysed and presented by Shemar & Lyne (1996) who detected them mainly at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Krawczyk , A. G. Lyne , J. A. Gil , B. C. Joshi

We investigate properties of Galactic microlensing events in which a stellar object is lensed by a neutron star. For an all-sky photometric microlensing survey, we determine the number of lensing events caused by $\sim10^{5}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-03 Shi Dai , Martin C. Smith , Mengxiang Lin , Youling Yue , George Hobbs , Renxin Xu

Continuous gravitational-wave signals from isolated non-axisymmetric rotating neutron stars may undergo episodic spin-up events known as glitches. If unmodelled by a search, these can result in missed or misidentified detections. We outline…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 Gregory Ashton , Reinhard Prix , Ian Jones

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

Many radio pulsars exhibit glitches wherein the star's spin rate increases fractionally by $\sim 10^{-10} - 10^{-6}$. Glitches are ascribed to variable coupling between the neutron star crust and its superfluid interior. With the aim of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Michelle B. Larson , Bennett Link

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