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The observed recurrence of glitches in pulsars and neutron stars carry rich information about the evolution of their internal structures. In this article I show that the glitch-events observed in pulsars are exact quantum signatures for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-20 A. A. Hujeirat

Many radio pulsars exhibit glitches wherein the star's spin rate increases fractionally by $\sim 10^{-10} - 10^{-6}$. Glitches are ascribed to variable coupling between the neutron star crust and its superfluid interior. With the aim of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Michelle B. Larson , Bennett Link

Influences of the mass, moment of inertia, rotation, absence of stability in the atmosphere and some other parameters of neutron stars on the evolution of pulsars are examined. It is shown that the locations and evolutions of soft gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oktay H. Guseinov , Askin Ankay , Sevinc O. Tagieva

The dynamics of quantised vorticity in neutron star interiors is at the heart of most pulsar glitch models. However, the large number of vortices (up to $\approx 10^{13}$) involved in a glitch and the huge disparity in scales between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Vadym Khomenko , Brynmor Haskell

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that are observed to be slowing down, implying a loss of their rotational energy. There can be several different physical mechanisms involved in their spin-down process. The properties of fast-rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-30 Avishek Basu , Prasanta Char , Rana Nandi

Rotation in massive stars has been studied on the main sequence and during helium burning for decades, but only recently have realistic numerical simulations followed the transport of angular momentum that occurs during more advanced stages…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Heger , S. E. Woosley , N. Langer , H. C. Spruit

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

Magnetars are a kind of pulsars powered mainly by superhigh magnetic fields. They are popular sources with many unsolved issues in themselves, but also linked to various high energy phenomena, such as QPOs, giant flares, fast radio bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Zhi-Fu Gao , Hao Shan , Hui Wang

The standard explanation for large pulsar glitches involves transfer of angular momentum from an internal superfluid component to the star's crust. This model requires an instability to trigger the sudden unpinning of the vortices by means…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-18 K. Glampedakis , N. Andersson

Pulsar "standard model" of rotating magnetized conducting sphere surrounded by plasma is generalized in its essential parts for the case of oscillating star. Goldreich-Julian charge density, electromagnetic energy losses as well as polar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Timokhin

We study the spindown of pulsars due to gravitational wave emission and show that r-modes in neutron stars provide a quantitative explanation for the observed low rotation frequencies of young pulsars if the r-mode saturation amplitude is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-13 Mark G. Alford , Kai Schwenzer

The loss of angular momentum due to unstable r-modes in hot young neutron stars has been proposed as a mechanism for achieving the spin rates inferred for young pulsars. One factor that could have a significant effect on the action of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anna. L. Watts , Nils. Andersson

Quasi-periodic oscillations have been seen in the light curves following several magnetar giant flares. These oscillations are of great interest as they probably provide our first ever view of the normal modes of oscillation of neutron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 K. Glampedakis , D. I. Jones

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

The magnetically decoupled core model was proposed earlier as a way to solve the problem of inconsistency between the neutron star long-period precession and superfluid vortex pinning which is the base of most theories of pulsar glitches.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 O. A. Goglichidze , D. P. Barsukov

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

The origin and evolution of magnetic fields of neutron stars from birth has long been a source of debate. Here, motivated by recent simulations of the Hall cascade with magnetic helicity, we invoke a model where the large-scale magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-27 Nikhil Sarin , Axel Brandenburg , Brynmor Haskell

We consider combined rotational, magnetic, and thermal evolution of the neutron star during the accretion phase in a binary system. A rapid accretion-driven decay of the magnetic field decreases substantially the efficiency of angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-14 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

The core of a neutron star contains several species of particles, whose relative equilibrium concentrations are determined by the local density. As the star spins down, its centrifugal force decreases continuously, and the star contracts.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andreas Reisenegger

Context: The standard cooling models of neutron stars predict temperatures $T<10^{4}$ K for ages $t>10^{7}$ yr. However, the likely thermal emission detected from the millisecond pulsar J0437-4715, of spin-down age $t_s \sim 7\times10^9$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Denis Gonzalez , Andreas Reisenegger