Vortex creep against toroidal flux lines, crustal entrainment, and pulsar glitches

Gügercinoğlu, Erbil and Alpar, M. Ali (2014) Vortex creep against toroidal flux lines, crustal entrainment, and pulsar glitches. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 788 (1). ISSN 2041-8205 (Print) 2041-8213 (Online)

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Abstract

A region of toroidally oriented quantized flux lines must exist in the proton superconductor in the core of the neutron star. This region will be a site of vortex pinning and creep. Entrainment of the neutron superfluid with the crustal lattice leads to a requirement of superfluid moment of inertia associated with vortex creep in excess of the available crustal moment of inertia. This will bring about constraints on the equation of state. The toroidal flux region provides the moment of inertia necessary to complement the crust superfluid with postglitch relaxation behavior fitting the observations.
Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Article Number: L11
Uncontrolled Keywords: dense matter; pulsars : general; stars : magnetic field; stars : neutron
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences > Basic Sciences > Physics
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: M. Ali Alpar
Date Deposited: 10 Dec 2014 14:48
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 09:14
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/24524

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