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The motion of superfluid vortices in a neutron star crust is at the heart of most theories of pulsar glitches. Pinning of vortices to ions can decouple the superfluid from the crust and create a reservoir of angular momentum. Sudden large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Brynmor Haskell , Andrew Melatos

We propose a possible way to solve the problem of inconsistency between the neutron star long-period precession and superfluid vortex pinning, which is the basis of the most successful theories of pulsar glitches. We assume that the pinning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-08 O. A. Goglichidze , D. P. Barsukov

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

Pulsar-like compact stars provide us a unique laboratory to explore properties of dense matter at supra-nuclear densities. One of the models for pulsar-like stars is that they are totally composed of "strangeons", and in this paper we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 X. Y. Lai , C. A. Yun , J. G. Lu , G. L. Lv , Z. J. Wang , R. X. Xu

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

The density in the core of neutron stars can reach values of about 5 to 10 times nuclear matter saturation density. It is, therefore, a natural assumption that hadrons may have dissolved into quarks under such conditions, forming a hybrid…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 S. Schramm , V. Dexheimer , R. Negreiros

Glitches, spin-up events in neutron stars, are of prime interest as they reveal properties of nuclear matter at subnuclear densities. We numerically investigate the glitch mechanism due to vortex unpinning using analogies between neutron…

We develop a theoretical framework that allows us to explore the coupled motion of neutron-superfluid vortices and proton-superconductor flux tubes in a gravitationally collapsed condensate, which describe neutron stars that form pulsars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-16 Sanjay Shukla , Marc E. Brachet , Rahul Pandit

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

Glitches in neutron stars originate from the sudden transfer of angular momentum between superfluid components and the observable crust. By modeling this glitch dynamics, including vortex motion, mutual friction, and angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-24 Zhonghao Tu , Ang Li

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

In the present paper we argue that timing irregularities in pulsars, like glitches and timing noise, could be associated with the violation of the weak equivalence principle for vortices in the superfluid core of rotating neutron stars.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-04 Clovis Jacinto de Matos

Spinning superfluid neutrons in the core of a neutron star interact strongly with co-existing superconducting protons. One consequence is that the outward(inward) motion of core superfluid neutron vortices during spin-down(up) of a neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Malvin Ruderman , Tianhua Zhu , Kaiyou Chen

$\sim 6\%$ 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

Pinning of superfluid vortices to the nuclear lattice of the inner crust of a neutron star supports a velocity difference between the superfluid and the solid as the star spins down. Under the Magnus force that arises on the vortex lattice,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bennett Link

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

Isolated neutron stars undergoing non-radial oscillations are expected to emit gravitational waves in the kilohertz frequency range. To date, radio astronomers have located about 1,300 pulsars, and can estimate that there are about 2 times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 G. L. Comer

We derive the bulk viscous damping timescale of hybrid stars, neutron stars with quark matter core. The r-mode instability windows of the stars show that the theoretical results are consistent with the rapid rotation pulsar data, which may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiaoping Zheng , Nana Pan , Shuhua Yang , Xuewen Liu , Miao Kang , Jiarong Li

It is believed that the core of a neutron star can be host to various novel phases of matter, from nucleon superfluid phase to exotic high baryon density quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phases. Different observational signals for such phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 Partha Bagchi , Biswanath Layek , Dheeraj Saini , Anjishnu Sarkar , Ajit M. Srivastava , Deepthi Godaba Venkata

Glitch is supposed to be a useful probe into pulsar's interior, but the underlying physics remains puzzling. The glitch activity may reflect a lower limit of the crustal moment of inertia in conventional neutron star models. Nevertheless,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Weihua Wang , Xiaoyu Lai , Enping Zhou , Jiguang Lu , Xiaoping Zheng , Renxin Xu