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The number of sudden spin-ups in radio pulsars known as pulsar glitches has increased over the years. Though a consensus has not been reached with regards to the actual cause of the phenomenon, the electromagnetic braking torque on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Innocent O. Eya , Jibrin A. Alhassan , Evaristus U. Iyida , Augustine E. Chukwude , Johnson O. Urama

The abrupt change in the pulse period of a pulsar is called a pulsar glitch. In this paper, we present eleven pulsar glitches detected using the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) and the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) in high…

We present a statistical study of the glitch population and the behaviour of the glitch activity across the known population of neutron stars. An unbiased glitch database was put together based on systematic searches of radio timing data of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-16 J. R. Fuentes , C. M. Espinoza , A. Reisenegger , B. W. Stappers , B. Shaw , A. G. Lyne

With the aim of constraining the structural properties of neutron stars and the equation of state of dense matter, we study sudden spin-ups, glitches, occurring in the Vela pulsar and in six other pulsars. We present evidence that glitches…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 B. Link , R. I. Epstein , J. M. Lattimer

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

The 2016 Vela glitch observed by the Mt Pleasant radio telescope provides the first opportunity to study pulse-to-pulse dynamics of a pulsar glitch, opening up new possibilities to study the neutron star's interior. We fit models of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 Gregory Ashton , Paul D. Lasky , Vanessa Graber , Jim Palfreyman

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

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

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

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

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

Young pulsars deviate from a perfectly regular spin-down by two non-deterministic phenomena: impulsive glitches and timing noise. Both phenomena are interesting per se, and may provide insights into the superfluid properties of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-17 Marco Antonelli , Avishek Basu , Brynmor Haskell

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

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

Neutron stars or pulsars are very rapidly rotating compact stars with extremely high density. One of the unsolved long-standing problems of these enigmatic celestial bodies is the origin of pulsars' glitches, i.e., the sudden rapid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-20 Giacomo Marmorini , Shigehiro Yasui , Muneto Nitta

Almost all pulsars with anomalous positive $\ddot \Omega $ measurements (corresponding to anomalous braking indices in the range 5$<n<$100), including all the pulsars with observed large glitches ($\Delta\Omega/\Omega$ $>$ 10$^{-7}$) as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Alpar , A. Baykal

A starquake mechanism for pulsar glitches is developed in the solid quark star model. It is found that the general glitch natures (i.e., the glitch amplitudes and the time intervals) could be reproduced if solid quark matter, with high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 A. Z. Zhou , R. X. Xu , X. J. Wu , N. Wang , X. Y. Hong

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

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 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…