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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

The crust of a neutron star is known to melt at a temperature that increases with increasing matter density, up to about $10^{10}$ K. At such high temperatures and beyond, the crustal ions are put into collective motion and the associated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 H. Dinh Thi , A. F. Fantina , F. Gulminelli

We consider how superfluidity of dripped neutrons in the crust of a neutron star affects the frequencies of the crust's fundamental torsional oscillations. A nonnegligible superfluid part of dripped neutrons, which do not comove with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Hajime Sotani , Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

The question of whether there are enough superfluid neutrons in the inner crust of neutron stars to explain pulsar glitches remains a topic of debate. Previous band structure calculations suggest that the entrainment effect significantly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-25 Giorgio Almirante , Michael Urban

Superfluid vortices pinned to nuclear lattice sites or magnetic flux tubes in a neutron star evolve abruptly through a sequence of metastable spatial configurations, punctuated by unpinning avalanches associated with rotational glitches, as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Thippayawis Cheunchitra , Andrew Melatos , Julian B. Carlin , George Howitt

Superfluid hydrodynamics affects the spin-evolution of mature neutron stars, and may be key to explaining timing irregularities such as pulsar glitches. However, most models for this phenomenon exclude the global instability required to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-27 N. Andersson , K. Glampedakis , M. Hogg

We discuss the effects of superfluidity on the shear viscosity in a neutron star core. Our study combines existing theoretical results for the viscosity coefficients with data for the various superfluid energy gaps into a consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Andersson , G. L. Comer , K. Glampedakis

Type-I proton superconducting cores of neutron stars break up in a magnetic field into alternating domains of superconducting and normal fluids. We examine two channels of superfluid-normal fluid friction where (i) rotational vortices are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Armen Sedrakian

Crustquake events may be connected with both rapid spin-up `glitches' within the regular slowdown of neutron stars, and high-energy magnetar flares. We argue that magnetic field decay builds up stresses in a neutron star's crust, as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 S. K. Lander , N. Andersson , D. Antonopoulou , A. L. Watts

We construct equilibrium configurations of magnetized, two-fluid neutron stars using an iterative numerical method. Working in Newtonian framework we assume that the neutron star has two regions: the core, which is modelled as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-18 K. Palapanidis , N. Stergioulas , S. K. Lander

We investigate the effect of a pinned superfluid component on the gravitational wave emission of a rotating neutron star. Pinning of superfluid vortices to the flux-tubes in the outer core (where the protons are likely to form a type-II…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-29 Brynmor Haskell , Marco Antonelli , Pierre Pizzochero

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

Glitches are sudden jumps in the spin frequency of pulsars believed to originate in the superfluid interior of neutron stars. Superfluid flow in a model neutron star is simulated by solving the equations of motion of a two-component…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 G. Howitt , B. Haskell , A. Melatos

We study the superfluid vortex motion in the neutron star inner crust through direct three-dimensional simulations of the coupled dynamics of the vortex and the nuclear lattice. We demonstrate the pinning of an initially moving vortex to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Xin Sheng , Bennett Link , Matthew E. Caplan , Yuri Levin

Despite the absence of viscous drag, the neutron superfluid permeating the inner crust of a neutron star can still be strongly coupled to nuclei due to non-dissipative entrainment effects. Neutron superfluidity and entrainment have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-02 N. Chamel , J. M. Pearson , S. Goriely

We consider the pulsar rotation assuming that the neutron star consists of crust component (which rotation is observed) and two core components. One of the core components contains pinned superfluid which can, for some reasons, suddenly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-19 D. P. Barsukov , O. A. Goglichidze , K. Y. Kraav , M. V. Vorontsov

A number of observed phenomena associated with individual neutron star systems or neutron star populations find explanations in models in which the neutron star crust plays an important role. We review recent work examining the sensitivity…

Vortex-mediated mutual friction governs the coupling between the superfluid and normal components in neutron star interiors. By, for example, comparing precise timing observations of pulsar glitches with theoretical predictions it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-14 Lorenzo Gavassino , Marco Antonelli , Pierre Pizzochero , Brynmor Haskell

In the Ginzburg-Landau limit, a possible texture without singular cores in a rotating neutron spin-triplet superfluid is studied. It is constructed the lattice of non-singular vortices with a vorticity diffusely distributed over the entire…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-17 Lev B. Leinson

We consider the expulsion of the magnetic field from the super-conducting core of a neutron star and its subsequent decay in the crust. Particular attention is paid to a strong feedback of the distortion of magnetic field lines in the crust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Konenkov , U. Geppert