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Pulsars are known for their exceptionally stable rotation. However, this stability can be disrupted by glitches, sudden increases in rotation frequency whose cause is poorly understood. In this study, we present some preliminary results…

A cellular automaton model of pulsar glitches is described, based on the superfluid vortex unpinning paradigm. Recent analyses of pulsar glitch data suggest that glitches result from scale-invariant avalanches \citep{Melatos07a}, which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Warszawski , A. Melatos

A rotating superfluid forms an array of quantized vortex lines which determine its angular velocity. The spasmodic evolution of the array under the influence of deceleration, dissipation, and pinning forces is thought to be responsible for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 G. Howitt , A. Melatos , B. Haskell

Pulsars are the most numerous class of Galactic gamma-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Young pulsars occasionally experience sudden timing discontinuities called glitches, characterized by rapid changes in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-08 Giovanni Cozzolongo , Alessio Fiori , Massimiliano Razzano , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

We present a detailed analysis of the Vela pulsar's rotational behaviour using approximately 100 months of observational data spanning from September 2016 to January 2025, during which four glitches were identified. Here, we demonstrate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Himanshu Grover , Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Bhal Chandra Joshi , M. A. Krishnakumar , Shantanu Desai , P. Arumugam , Debades Bandyopadhyay

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

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

The angular momentum transfer associated to Vela-like glitches has never been calculated {\em directly} within a realistic scenario for the storage and release of superfluid vorticity; therefore, the explanation of giant glitches in terms…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Pierre M. Pizzochero

The observed large rates of spinning down after glitches in some radio pulsars has been previously explained in terms of a long-term spin-up behaviour of a superfluid part of the crust of neutron stars. We argue that the suggested mechanism…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Jahan-Miri

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

Observations of pulsar glitches remain a powerful tool for studying the interior of neutron stars. Many of the observed glitch properties are shown to result from the evolution of glitches in the different manifestations of neutron stars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-17 J. O. Urama , B. C. Joshi , A. E. Chukwude

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

We revisit the short-term post-glitch relaxation of the Vela 2000 glitch in the simple two-component model of pulsar glitch by making use of the latest realistic equations of states from the microscopic Brueckner and the relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-17 Xinle Shang , Ang Li

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

The build up of the stress whose relaxation is presumed to account for pulsar frequency glitches can be attributed to various mechanisms, of which the most efficient involve differential rotation of the neutron superfluid in the inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicolas Chamel , Brandon Carter

Pulsar glitches-the sudden spin-up in the rotational frequency of a neutron star-suggest the existence of an angular-momentum reservoir confined to the inner crust of the neutron star. Large and regular glitches observed in the Vela pulsar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Piekarewicz , F. J. Fattoyev , C. J. Horowitz

Timing observations of rapidly rotating neutron stars revealed a great number of glitches, observed both from canonical radio pulsars and magnetars. Among them, 76 glitches have shown exponential relaxation(s) with characteristic decay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-27 Erbil Gügercinoğlu

The rotation of more than 700 pulsars has been monitored using the 76-m Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank. Here we report on a new search for glitches in the observations, revealing 128 new glitches in the rotation of 63 pulsars. Combining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Cristobal M. Espinoza , Andrew G. Lyne , Ben W. Stappers , Michael Kramer

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

Mature neutron stars are expected to have several superfluid components. Strong evidence for this is provided by the glitches that have been observed in dozens of pulsars. The underlying idea behind most glitch models is that, as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Andersson , G. L. Comer , R. Prix