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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

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

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 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

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

$\sim 6\%$ 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

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

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

Glitch activity refers to the mean increase in pulsar spin frequency per year due to rotational glitches. It is an important tool for studying super-nuclear matter using neutron star interiors as templates. Glitch events are typically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-22 Innocent Okwudili Eya , Evaristus Uzochukwu Iyida

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

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

Glitches are sudden spin-up events that punctuate the steady spin down of pulsars and are thought to be due to the presence of a superfluid component within neutron stars. The precise glitch mechanism and its trigger, however, remain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 C. M. Espinoza , D. Antonopoulou , B. W. Stappers , A. Watts , A. G. Lyne

Pulsar timing at the Mt Pleasant observatory focused on Vela, which could be tracked for 18 hours of the day. These nearly continuous timing records extend over 24 years allowing a great insight into details of timing noise, micro glitches…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 R. Dodson , A. Deshpande , D. Lewis , P. McCulloch

Continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars could provide an invaluable resource to learn about their interior physics. A common search method involves matched filtering a modeled template against the noisy gravitational-wave data to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-26 Gregory Ashton , Reinhard Prix , David Ian Jones

The long-term evolution of the relative rotation of the core superfluid in a neutron star with respect to the rest of the star, at different radial distances from the rotation axis, is determined through model calculations. The core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Jahan-Miri

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

Modeling the dynamics of the quantum fluids within a spinning-down neutron star gives a description consistent with observed pulsar magnetic field evolution and spin-period "glitches." The long-standing problem of large predicted excesses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ruderman

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

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

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
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