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Spinning neutron stars, when observed as pulsars, are seen to undergo occasional spin-up events known as glitches. Despite several decades of study, the physical mechanisms responsible for glitches are still not well understood, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 Brynmor Haskell , David Ian Jones

A glitch is a rare and sudden increase in the otherwise steadily decreasing rotation rate of a pulsar. Its cause is widely attributed to the transfer of angular momentum to the crust of the star from the array of superfluid vortices…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Anantharaman Sekharipuram Viswanathan , Dipankar Bhattacharya

Glitches are rare spin-up events that punctuate the smooth slow-down of the rotation of pulsars. For the Vela pulsar and PSR J0537-6910, the glitch sizes and the times between consecutive events have clear preferred scales, contrary to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-02 J. R. Fuentes , C. M. Espinoza , A. Reisenegger

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

Pulsars are famed for their rotational clock-like stability and their highly-repeatable pulse shapes. However, it has long been known that there are unexplained deviations (often termed "timing noise") from the rate at which we predict…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-06-29 Andrew Lyne , George Hobbs , Michael Kramer , Ingrid Stairs , Ben Stappers

Stress accumulation-relaxation meta-models of pulsar glitches make precise, microphysics-agnostic predictions of long-term glitch statistics, which can be falsified by existing and future timing data. Previous meta-models assume that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Julian B. Carlin , Andrew Melatos

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

Pulsar glitches are sudden increases in the spin frequency of an otherwise steadily spinning down neutron star. These events are thought to represent a direct probe of the dynamics of the superfluid interior of the star. However glitches…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Brynmor Haskell , Danai Antonopoulou

Pulsar glitches are sudden increase in their spin frequency, in most cases followed by the long timescale recovery process. As of this writing, about 546 glitches have been reported in 188 pulsars, the Crab pulsar is a special one with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-09 Weihua Wang , Xiaoping Zheng

The timing properties of radio pulsars provide a unique probe of neutron star interiors. Recent observations have uncovered quasiperiodicities in the timing and pulse properties of some pulsars, a phenomenon that has often been attributed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-29 D. I. Jones , G. Ashton , R. Prix

In this study we aim for a deeper understanding of the power law slope, $\alpha$, of waiting time distributions. Statistically independent events with linear behavior can be characterized by binomial, Gaussian, exponential, or Poissonian…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Markus J. Aschwanden , Jay R. Johnson , Yosia I. Nurhan

Observations of pulsar glitches have the potential to provide constraints on the dynamics of the high density interior of neutron stars. However, to do so, realistic glitch models must be constructed and compared to the data. We take a step…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-05 Thomas Celora , Vadym Khomenko , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell

Pulsar glitches, i.e. the sudden spin-ups of pulsars, have been detected for most pulsars that we known. The mechanism giving rise to this kind of phenomenon is uncertain, although a large data set has been built. In the framework of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 X. Y. Lai , R. X. Xu

An updated analysis of pulsar glitch parameters was conducted using a sample of 215 pulsars, encompassing 677 recorded glitch events, each glitch at least once between 1968 and 2024. The glitch rates were estimated and plotted against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-20 Miracle Chibuzor Marcel

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

Sharp structural variations induce specific signatures on stellar pulsations that can be studied to infer localised information on the stratification of the star. This information is key to improve our understanding of the physical…

In certain pulsar timing experiments, where observations are scheduled approximately periodically (e.g. daily), timing models with significantly different frequencies (including but not limited to glitch models with different frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Liam Dunn , Marcus E. Lower , Andrew Melatos

Timing noise in pulsars is often modelled with a Fourier-basis Gaussian process that follows a power law with periodic boundary conditions on the observation time, $T_\mathrm{span}$. However the actual noise processes can extend well below…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Michael J. Keith , Iuliana C. Niţu

Pulsar glitches are sudden spin-ups in pulsar spin frequency ($\nu$). The glitch size, $\Delta\nu/\nu$, is a key parameter in any mechanism puts across towards the understanding of the events.However, the distribution of the glitch sizes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-10 I. O. Eya , E. U. Iyida , C. I. Eze

The Crab Pulsar has exhibited numerous glitches accompanied by persistent shifts in its spin-down rate. The explanation of the observed persistent shifts remain a challenge. We perform a detailed Bayesian analysis to compare four…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Chun Huang , Xiao-Ping Zheng