Constraint on the internal structure of a neutron star from Vela pulsar glitches
arXiv:1607.05943
Abstract
Pulsars are spinning extremely rapidly with periods as short as about milliseconds and delays of a few milliseconds per year at most, thus providing the most accurate clocks in the Universe. Nevertheless, sudden spin ups have been detected in some pulsars like the emblematic Vela pulsar. These abrupt changes in the pulsar's rotation period have long been thought to be the manifestation of a neutron superfluid permeating the inner crust of neutron stars. However, the neutron superfluid has been recently found to be so strongly coupled to the crust that it does not carry enough angular momentum to explain the Vela data. We explore the extent to which pulsar-timing observations can be reconciled with the standard glitch theory considering the lack of knowledge of the dense-matter equation of state.
arXiv commentProceedings of the conference "The Modern Physics of Compact Stars 2015" held in Erevan, Armenia, from 30 September 2015 to 3 October 2015. To appear in Proceedings of Science
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