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Pulsar glitches are attributed to the sudden re-coupling of very weakly coupled large scale superfluid components in the neutron star interior. This process leads to rapid exchange of angular momentum and an increase in spin frequency. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-22 Brynmor Haskell , Vadym Khomenko , Marco Antonelli , Danai Antonopoulou

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

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

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

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 core-envelope models presented in {Ref1}; {Ref2}, corresponding to the values of compactness parameter, $u \equiv M/a$ = 0.30 and 0.25 (mass to size ratio in geometrized units) have been studied under slow rotation. It is seen that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-04 P S Negi

The first pulse-to-pulse observations of a neutron star glitch in the Vela pulsar identified a null pulse hinting at the sudden disruption of the neutron star's magnetosphere. The only physical model connecting the glitch and the null pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-09 Gregory Ashton , Paul D. Lasky , Rowina Nathan , Jim Palfreyman

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

Neutron stars are known to show accelerated spin-up of their rotational frequency called a glitch. Highly magnetized rotating neutron stars (pulsars) are frequently observed by radio telescopes (and in other frequencies), where the glitch…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Dixeena Lopez , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Marco Drago , David Keitel , Claudia Lazzaro , Giovanni Andrea Prodi

Three sudden spin-down events, termed `anti-glitches', were recently discovered in the accreting pulsar NGC 300 ULX-1 by the \textit{Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer} (NICER) mission. Unlike previous anti-glitches detected in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 G. Howitt , A. Melatos

Pulsar glitches provide a unique way to study neutron star microphysics because short post-glitch dynamics are directly linked to strong frictional processes on small scales. To illustrate this connection between macroscopic observables and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Vanessa Graber , Andrew Cumming , Nils Andersson

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

Many pulsars exhibit a peculiar behaviour in their pulse profile of a sudden increase in their rotational period, which is popularly known as a pulsar glitch. Some of them show giant glitches with relative amplitude $\Delta\Omega/\Omega…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Yogeesh N. , Anil Kumar , Monika Sinha

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

Pulsar glitches offer an insight into the dynamics of superfluids in the high density interior of a neutron star. To model these phenomena, however, one needs to have an understanding of the dynamics of a turbulent array of superfluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Brynmor Haskell , Danai Antonopoulou , Carlo Barenghi

We show that the short spin-up time observed for the Vela pulsar during the 1988 ``Christmas'' glitch implies that the coupling time of the pulsar core to its crust is less than $\sim$ 10 seconds. Ekman pumping cannot explain the fast…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark Abney , Richard I Epstein , Angela V Olinto

Observations of pulsar glitches may provide insights on the internal physics of neutron stars and recent studies show how it is in principle possible to constrain pulsar masses with timing observations. The reliability of these estimates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Alessandro Montoli , Marco Antonelli , Pierre Pizzochero

Timing of the Crab and Vela pulsars have recently revealed very peculiar evolutions of their spin frequency during the early stage of a glitch. We show that these differences can be interpreted from the interactions between neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Aurélien Sourie , Nicolas Chamel

There are currently two well-accepted models that explain how pulsars exhibit glitches, sudden changes in their regular rotational spin-down. According to the starquake model, the glitch healing parameter, Q, which is measurable in some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fronefield Crawford , Marek Demianski

I review attempts made to determine the properties of neutron stars. I focus on constraints on the maximum mass that a neutron star can have, and on attempts to measure neutron-star radii. So far, there appears to be only one neutron star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. H. van Kerkwijk