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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

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

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

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

Recent observation of a sudden spin down, occurring on a timescale not exceeding two weeks, of the magnetar 1E2259+586 (see Archibald et al. 2013, where this event was dubbed an `anti-glitch') has not still received any interpretation in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-04 Elena Kantor , Mikhail Gusakov

Neutron star glitches are observed via artificially scheduled pulsar pulse arrival-time observations. Detection probability density of glitch events for a given data set is essentially required knowledge for realizing glitch detectability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Meng Yu

In this paper we consider a simple two-fluid model for pulsar glitches. We derive the basic equations that govern the spin evolution of the system from two-fluid hydrodynamics, accounting for the vortex mediated mutual friction force that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 T. Sidery , A. Passamonti , N. Andersson

An updated analysis of pulsar glitch parameters was conducted using a sample of 215 pulsars, encompassing 677 recorded glitch events, each glitch at least once between 1968 and 2024. The glitch rates were estimated and plotted against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-20 Miracle Chibuzor Marcel

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

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

Timing observations from the Parkes 64-m radio telescope for 165 pulsars between 1990 and 2011 have been searched for period glitches. A total of 107 glitches were identified in 36 pulsars, where 61 have previously been reported and 46 are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Yu , R. N. Manchester , G. Hobbs , S. Johnston , V. M. Kaspi , M. Keith , A. G. Lyne , G. J. Qiao , V. Ravi , J. M. Sarkissian , R. Shannon , R. X. Xu

Glitches detected in pulsar timing observations at the Nanshan radio telescope of Urumqi Observatory between 2002 July and 2008 December are presented. In total, 29 glitches were detected in 19 young pulsars, with this being the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 J. P. Yuan , N. Wang , R. N. Manchester , Z. Y. Liu

Glitches are sudden changes in rotation frequency and spin-down rate, observed from pulsars of all ages. Standard glitches are characterized by a positive step in angular velocity ($\Delta\Omega$ $ > $ $0$) and a negative step in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 O. Akbal , E. Gügercinoğlu , S. Şaşmaz Muş , M. A. Alpar

Pulsars are often lauded for their (relative) rotational and radio emission stability over long time scales. However, long-term observing programmes are identifying an increasing number of pulsars that deviate from this preconceived notion.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-13 M. E. Lower , A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , P. R. Brook , S. Dai , M. Kerr , R. N. Manchester , L. S. Oswald , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

The young, fast-spinning, X-ray pulsar J0537-6910 displays an extreme glitch activity, with large spin-ups interrupting its decelerating rotation every ~100 days. We present nearly 13 years of timing data from this pulsar, obtained with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-08 D. Antonopoulou , C. M. Espinoza , L. Kuiper , N. Andersson

Pulsar glitches are traditionally viewed as a manifestation of vortex dynamics associated with a neutron superfluid reservoir confined to the inner crust of the star. In this Letter we show that the non-dissipative entrainment coupling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 N. Andersson , K. Glampedakis , W. C. G. Ho , C. M. Espinoza

Magnetars are neutron stars showing dramatic X-ray and soft $\gamma$-ray outbursting behaviour that is thought to be powered by intense internal magnetic fields. Like conventional young neutron stars in the form of radio pulsars, magnetars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 R. F. Archibald , V. M. Kaspi , C. -Y. Ng , K. N. Gourgouliatos , D. Tsang , P. Scholz , A. P. Beardmore , N. Gehrels , J. A. Kennea

Pulsar glitches are the sudden increase in their spin frequency, most accompanied with a long timescale recovery process. A permanent shift would be remained in the first order derivative of spin frequency with time. Relevant data fitting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-31 Chun Huang , Chenwei Lin , Jiachen Xie , Xiaoping Zheng

The neutron star crust is rigid material floating on a neutron-proton liquid core. As the star's spin rate slows, the changing stellar shape stresses the crust and causes fractures. These starquakes may trigger pulsar glitches as well as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Richard I. Epstein , Bennett Link

Pulsars show a steady decrease in their rotational frequency, occasionally interrupted by sudden spin-ups called glitches, whose physical origin is still a mystery. One suggested explanation for at least the small glitches are starquakes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 J. A. Rencoret , C. Aguilera-Gómez , A. Reisenegger