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Model misspecification is ubiquitous in data analysis because the data-generating process is often complex and mathematically intractable. Therefore, assessing estimation uncertainty and conducting statistical inference under a possibly…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-19 Rong Li , Yichen Qin , Yang Li

The glitch size, $ \Delta\nu/\nu $, inter-glitch time interval, $ t_{i} $ and frequency of glitches in pulsars are key parameters in discussing glitch phenomena. In this paper, the glitch sizes and inter-glitch time intervals were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-27 Innocent O. Eya , Johnson O. Urama , Augustine E. Chukwude

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

The glitch activity of young pulsars arises from the exchange of angular momentum between the crust and the interior of the star. Recently, it was inferred that the moment of inertia of the crust of a neutron star is not sufficient to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-02 Kalin Staykov , K. Yavuz Ekşi , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , M. Metehan Türkoğlu , A. Savaş Arapoğlu

Glitch size and waiting time probability density functions (PDFs) are estimated for the five pulsars that have glitched most using the nonparametric kernel density estimator. Two objects exhibit decreasing size and waiting time PDFs. Their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 G. Howitt , A. Melatos , A. Delaigle

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

The question of whether there are enough superfluid neutrons in the inner crust of neutron stars to explain pulsar glitches remains a topic of debate. Previous band structure calculations suggest that the entrainment effect significantly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-25 Giorgio Almirante , Michael Urban

We present timing solutions from the Fermi-LAT observations of gamma-ray pulsars PSR J0835$-$4510 (Vela), PSR J1023$-$5746, PSR J2111$+$4606, and PSR J2229$+$6114. Data ranges for each pulsar extend over a decade. From data analysis we have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 E. Gügercinoğlu , M. Y. Ge , J. P. Yuan , S. Q. Zhou

Several glitches have been observed in young, isolated radio pulsars, while a clear detection in accretion-powered X-ray pulsars is still lacking. We use the Pizzochero snowplow model for pulsar glitches as well as starquake models to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 L. Ducci , P. M. Pizzochero , V. Doroshenko , A. Santangelo , S. Mereghetti , C. Ferrigno

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

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

In this paper, we study in detail the role of general relativity on the global dynamics of giant pulsar glitches as exemplified by Vela. For this purpose, we carry out numerical simulations of the spin up triggered by the sudden unpinning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Aurélien Sourie , Nicolas Chamel , Jérôme Novak , Micaela Oertel

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

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

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

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors are now routinely surveying the dark Universe, finding hundreds of collisions between compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. However, terrestrial non-Gaussian noise artefacts,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Gregory Ashton , Colm Talbot , Andrew Lundgren , Ann-Kristin Malz , Joseph Areeda

Pulsar glitches are a potential source of gravitational waves for current and future interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Some pulsar glitch events were observed by radio and X-ray telescopes during the fifth LIGO science run. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuhiro Hayama , Shantanu Desai , Soumya D. Mohanty , Malik Rakhmanov , Tiffany Summerscales , Sanichiro Yoshida

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

We investigate the chaotic spin-down behavior seen from some pulsars in terms of the nonlinear superfluid dynamics. To this end, we numerically solve the set of equations for the superfluid-normal matter system whose coupling is mediated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Mustafa Doğan , K. Yavuz Ekşi

Large pulsar glitches (like the ones detected in the Vela) are though to be a consequence of the superfluid component present in the interior of mature neutron stars. However strong entrainment challenges this picture. We study the impact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-23 Marco Antonelli , Pierre Pizzochero