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. 1981 Sep;78(9):5299–5301. doi: 10.1073/pnas.78.9.5299

Glitches and pinned vorticity in the Crab pulsar

M A Alpar *, P W Anderson , D Pines ‡,§, J Shaham
PMCID: PMC348731  PMID: 16593085

Abstract

We suggest that the glitch behavior observed in the Crab pulsar is associated with vorticity jumps induced by a starquake or a comparable external fluctuation in the weakly pinned vortex region expected in the crust of a young neutron star, and that the differences in the glitch behavior of the Crab, Vela, and older pulsars may be explained on evolutionary grounds.

Keywords: neutron stars, hadron superfluidity

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