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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 glitch is a phenomenon characterized by abrupt changes in the spin period over less than a minute. We present a comprehensive analysis of glitches in four gamma-ray pulsars by combining the timing observation data from \textit{Fermi}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 P. Liu , J. -P. Yuan , M. -Y. Ge , W. -T. Ye , S. -Q. Zhou , S. -J. Dang , Z. -R. Zhou , E. Gügercinoğlu , Z. H. Tu , P. Wang , A. Li , D. Li , N. Wang

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

Pulsar glitches, sudden jumps in frequency in otherwise steadily spinning down radio pulsars, offer a unique glimpse into the superfluid interior of neutron stars. The exact trigger of these events remains, however, elusive and this has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-16 Pierre Pizzochero , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell , Stefano Seveso

Pulsar glitches are rapid spin-up events that occur in the rotation of neutron stars, providing a valuable probe into the physics of the interiors of these objects. Long-term monitoring of a large number of pulsars facilitates the detection…

The first large-scale quantum mechanical simulations of pulsar glitches are presented, using a Gross-Pitaevskii model of the crust-superfluid system in the presence of pinning. Power-law distributions of simulated glitch sizes are obtained,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Warszawski , A. Melatos

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

We carry out a classification of the glitch amplitudes of radio pulsars using Extreme Deconvolution technique based on the Gaussian Mixture Model, where the observed uncertainties in the glitch amplitudes $\Delta \nu/\nu$ are taken into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-22 Swetha Arumugam , Shantanu Desai

Glitches correspond to sudden jumps of rotation frequency ($\nu$) and its derivative ($\dot{\nu}$) of pulsars, the origin of which remains not well understood yet, partly because the jump processes of most glitches are not well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 M. Y. Ge , S. N. Zhang , F. J. Lu , T. P. Li , J. P. Yuan , X. P. Zheng , Y. Huang , S. J. Zheng , Y. P. Chen , Z. Chang , Y. L. Tuo , Q. Cheng , C. Güngör , L. M. Song , Y. P. Xu , X. L. Cao , Y. Chen , C. Z. Liu , S. Zhang , J. L. Qu , Q. C. Bu , C. Cai , G. Chen , L. Chen , M. Z. Chen , T. X. Chen , Y. B. Chen , W. Cui , W. W. Cui , J. K. Deng , Y. W. Dong , Y. Y. Du , M. X. Fu , G. H. Gao , H. Gao , M. Gao , Y. D. Gu , J. Guan , C. C. Guo , D. W. Han , L. F. Hao , J. Huo , S. M. Jia , L. H. Jiang , W. C. Jiang , C. J. Jin , J. Jin , Y. J. Jin , L. D. Kong , B. Li , D. Li , C. K. Li , G. Li , M. S. Li , W. Li , X. Li , X. B. Li , X. F. Li , Y. G. Li , Z. W. Li , Z. X. Li , Z. Y. Liu , X. H. Liang , J. Y. Liao , G. Q. Liu , H. W. Liu , X. J. Liu , Y. N. Liu , B. Lu , X. F. Lu , Q. Luo , T. Luo , X. Ma , B. Meng , Y. Nang , J. Y. Nie , G. Ou , N. Sai , R. C. Shang , X. Y. Song , L. Sun , Y. Tan , L. Tao , C. Wang , G. F. Wang , J. Wang , J. B. Wang , M. Wang , N. Wang , W. S. Wang , Y. D. Wang , Y. S. Wang , X. Y. Wen , Z. G. Wen , B. B. Wu , B. Y. Wu , M. Wu , G. C. Xiao , S. Xiao , S. L. Xiong , Y. H. Xu , W. M. Yan , J. W. Yang , S. Yang , Y. J. Yang , Y. J. Yang , Q. B. Yi , Q. Q. Yin , Y. You , Y. L. Yue , A. M. Zhang , C. M. Zhang , D. P. Zhang , F. Zhang , H. M. Zhang , J. Zhang , T. Zhang , W. C. Zhang , W. Zhang , W. Z. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. F. Zhang , Y. J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. L. Zhang , H. S. Zhao , X. F. Zhao , W. Zheng , D. K. Zhou , J. F. Zhou , X. Zhou , R. L. Zhuang , Y. X. Zhu , Y. Zhu

We test statistically the hypothesis that radio pulsar glitches result from an avalanche process, in which angular momentum is transferred erratically from the flywheel-like superfluid in the star to the slowly decelerating, solid crust via…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Melatos , C. Peralta , J. S. B. Wyithe

We report the detection of a large glitch in the pulsar B0919+06 (J0922+0638). The glitch occurred in 2009 November 5 (MJD 55140) and was characterized by a fractional increase in the rotation frequency of Deltanu/nu=1.3x10^{-6}. A large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Tatiana V. Shabanova

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 report an analysis of timing data for the pulsar B1642-03 (J1645-0317) gathered over the 40-year time span between 1969 and 2008. During this interval, the pulsar experienced eight glitch-like events with a fractional increase in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 T. V. Shabanova

As the most extensively and continuously monitored neutron star, the Crab pulsar serves as representative of the earliest evolutionary stage. Its unique and complex glitch phenomenology provides an unparalleled testing ground for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Pei-Xin Zhu , Xiao-Ping Zheng

Superfluid vortex avalanches are one plausible cause of pulsar glitch activity. If they occur according to a state-dependent Poisson process, the measured long-term glitch rate is determined by the spin-down rate of the stellar crust,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 A. Melatos , M. Millhouse

Many pulsars are observed to "glitch", i.e. show sudden jumps in their rotational frequency $\nu$, some of which can be as large as $\Delta \nu/\nu\approx 10^{-6}-10^{-5}$ in a subset of pulsars known as giant glitchers. Recently Pizzochero…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Stefano Seveso , Pierre M. Pizzochero , Brynmor Haskell

Radio pulsars provide us with some of the most stable clocks in the universe. Nevertheless several pulsars exhibit sudden spin-up events, known as glitches. More than forty years after their first discovery, the exact origin of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Brynmor Haskell , Andrew Melatos

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

Observations of pulsar glitches may provide insights on the internal physics of neutron stars and recent studies show how it is in principle possible to constrain pulsar masses with timing observations. The reliability of these estimates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Alessandro Montoli , Marco Antonelli , Pierre Pizzochero

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