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The dynamics of a neutron star after a glitch involve the transfer of angular momentum from the crust (where the glitch is presumed to originate) to the liquid core, causing the core to spin up. The crust-core coupling, which determines how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-21 J. R. Fuentes , Vanessa Graber

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

In this article we present an analytical two-component model for pulsar rotational dynamics. Under the assumption of axial symmetry, implemented by a paraxial array of straight vortices that thread the entire neutron superfluid, we are able…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Marco Antonelli , Pierre Pizzochero

Understanding the average motion of a multitude of superfluid vortices in the interior of a neutron star is a key ingredient for most theories of pulsar glitches. In this paper we propose a kinetic approach to compute the mutual friction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-19 Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell

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

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

We investigate the post-glitch rotational evolution of pulsars by analyzing the 2007 giant glitch of PSR J1718$-$3718 using a vortex creep model that incorporates both inward and outward nonlinear vortex motion, along with a time-varying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-05 Peng Liu , Zhonghao Tu , Jianping Yuan , Ang Li

The scale-invariant glitch statistics observed in individual pulsars (exponential waiting-time and power-law size distributions) are consistent with a critical self-organization process, wherein superfluid vortices pin metastably in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Andrew Melatos , Lila Warszawski

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

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that are renowned for their timing precision, although glitches can interrupt the regular timing behavior when these stars are young. Glitches are thought to be caused by interactions between normal and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Wynn C. G. Ho , Cristobal M. Espinoza , Danai Antonopoulou , Nils Andersson

The current-quadrupole gravitational-wave signal emitted during the spin-up phase of a pulsar glitch is calculated from first principles by modeling the vortex dynamics observed in recent Gross-Pitaevskii simulations of pinned, decelerating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 L. Warszawski , A. Melatos

Superfluid hydrodynamics affects the spin-evolution of mature neutron stars, and may be key to explaining timing irregularities such as pulsar glitches. However, most models for this phenomenon exclude the global instability required to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-27 N. Andersson , K. Glampedakis , M. Hogg

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

We use large-scale parallel simulations to compute the motion of superconducting magnetic vortices during avalanches triggered by small field increases. We find that experimentally observable voltage bursts correspond to pulsing vortex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 C. J. Olson , C. Reichhardt , J. Groth , Stuart B. Field , Franco Nori

Glitches, spin-up events in neutron stars, are of prime interest as they reveal properties of nuclear matter at subnuclear densities. We numerically investigate the glitch mechanism due to vortex unpinning using analogies between neutron…

The nature of the interaction between superfluid vortices and the neutron star crust, conjectured by Anderson and Itoh in 1975 to be at the heart vortex creep and the cause of glitches, has been a long-standing question in astrophysics.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-02 Gabriel Wlazłowski , Kazuyuki Sekizawa , Piotr Magierski , Aurel Bulgac , Michael McNeil Forbes

Pulsar glitches are thought to be probes of the superfluid interior of neutron stars. These sudden jumps in frequency observed in many pulsars are generally assumed to be the macroscopic manifestation of superfluid vortex motion on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Brynmor Haskell

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

The observed recurrence of glitches in pulsars and neutron stars carry rich information about the evolution of their internal structures. In this article I show that the glitch-events observed in pulsars are exact quantum signatures for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-20 A. A. Hujeirat

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