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Pulsars are rapidly spinning and highly magnetized neutron stars, with highly stable rotational period and gradual spin-down over a long timescale due to the loss of radiation. Glitches refer to the events that suddenly increase the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-06 C. W. Ng , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

$\sim 6\%$ of all known pulsars have been observed to exhibit sudden spin-up events, known as glitches. For more than fifty years, these phenomena have played an important role in helping to understand pulsar (astro)physics. Based on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Shiqi Zhou , Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Jianping Yuan , Mingyu Ge , Cong Yu

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

TThe glitch of anomalous X-ray pulsars \& soft gamma repeaters (AXP/SGRs) usually accompanied with detectable energy releases manifesting as X-ray bursts or outbursts, while the glitch of some pulsars like Vela release negligible energy. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-21 Jiguang Lu , Enping Zhou

We explore the interaction between Hall waves and mechanical failures inside a magnetar crust, using detailed one-dimentional models that consider temperature-sensitive plastic flow, heat transport and cooling by neutrino emission, as well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Xinyu Li , Yuri Levin , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Although pulsars are one of the most stable clocks in the universe, many of them are observed to 'glitch', i.e. to suddenly increase their spin frequency (\nu) with fractional increases that range from \Delta\nu/\nu \approx 10^{-11} to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Brynmor Haskell , Pierre Pizzochero , Trevor Sidery

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

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

Giant pulsar frequency glitches as detected in the emblematic Vela pulsar have long been thought to be the manifestation of a neutron superfluid permeating the inner crust of a neutron star. However, this superfluid has been recently found…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 T. Delsate , N. Chamel , N. Gürlebeck , A. F. Fantina , J. M. Pearson , C. Ducoin

The study of pulsar glitch phenomena serves as a valuable probe into the dynamic properties of matter under extreme high-density conditions, offering insights into the physics within neutron stars. Providing theoretical explanations for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Pei-Xin Zhu , Xiao-Ping Zheng

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

Context. Pulsars have a very stable rotation. However, sudden increases in their rotation frequency known as glitches, perturb their evolution. While large glitches are commonly detected, small glitches are harder to detect because of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 E. Zubieta , F. Garcia , S. del Palacio , S. B. Araujo Furlan , G. Gancio , C. O. Lousto , J. A. Combi , C. M. Espinoza

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

Pulsar glitches-the sudden spin-up in the rotational frequency of a neutron star-suggest the existence of an angular-momentum reservoir confined to the inner crust of the neutron star. Large and regular glitches observed in the Vela pulsar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Piekarewicz , F. J. Fattoyev , C. J. Horowitz

Neutron stars are a prime laboratory for testing physical processes under conditions of strong gravity, high density, and extreme magnetic fields. Among the zoo of neutron star phenomena, magnetars stand out for their bursting behaviour,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 D. Huppenkothen , B. J. Brewer , D. W. Hogg , I. Murray , M. Frean , C. Elenbaas , A. L. Watts , Y. Levin , A. J. van der Horst , C. Kouveliotou

Pulsars are highly magnetized rotating neutron stars with a very stable rotation speed. Irrespective of their stable rotation rate, many pulsars have been observed with the sudden jump in the rotation rate, which is known as pulsar glitch.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 Avishek Basu , Prasanta Char , Rana Nandi , Bhal Chandra Joshi , Debades Bandyopadhyay

A glitch of a pulsar is known as a sudden increase in the spin frequency and spin-down rate (frequency time derivative), and it can be caused by a sudden rel\ ease of the stress built up in the solid crust of the star or pinned vortices in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 J. Zhao , C. W. Ng , L. C. C. Lin , J. Takata , Y. Cai , C. P. Hu , D. C. C. Yen , P. H. T. Tam , C. Y. Hui , A. K. H. Kong , K. S. Cheng

Rotation-powered pulsars exhibit stable emission characteristics most of the time. However, their radiative state can vary with the sudden changes of rotational state such as glitches. To date, pulsed radiation changes associated with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Wen-Tao Ye , Ming-Yu Ge , Shi-Jie Zheng , Xiang Ma , Yu-Jia Zheng , Han-Long Peng , Xue-Zhi Liu , Li-Ming Song , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Fang-Jun Lu

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

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