Modeling large glitches with core superfluidity in a Hybrid star

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Main Authors: N., Yogeesh, Kumar, Anil, Sinha, Monika
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Published: 2026
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author N., Yogeesh
Kumar, Anil
Sinha, Monika
author_facet N., Yogeesh
Kumar, Anil
Sinha, Monika
contents Many pulsars exhibit a peculiar behaviour in their pulse profile of a sudden increase in their rotational period, which is popularly known as a pulsar glitch. Some of them show giant glitches with relative amplitude $ΔΩ/Ω\sim 10^{-6}-10^{-5}$. With the model of pinned neutron vortices inside the neutron star (NS) crust, this large glitch cannot be explained so far. However, the increasing evidence of massive pulsars indicates the appearance of exotic degrees of freedom in the inner core of the pulsars. Given this, we consider the pulsar as a hybrid star (HS). This model opens up the possibility of vortex-pinning inside the core. Under the Gibbs equilibrium conditions, it is possible for hadrons and the quark phase to coexist. Due to the global charge neutrality condition, quark pasta structures are formed in the background of hadronic matter. We consider these pasta structures as pinning sites of superfluid vortices. We show that considering the core contribution, our calculations come to be of the order of $ΔΩ/Ω\sim 10^{-6}$, which is close to the observations shown by the Vela-like pulsars.
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spellingShingle Modeling large glitches with core superfluidity in a Hybrid star
N., Yogeesh
Kumar, Anil
Sinha, Monika
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Many pulsars exhibit a peculiar behaviour in their pulse profile of a sudden increase in their rotational period, which is popularly known as a pulsar glitch. Some of them show giant glitches with relative amplitude $ΔΩ/Ω\sim 10^{-6}-10^{-5}$. With the model of pinned neutron vortices inside the neutron star (NS) crust, this large glitch cannot be explained so far. However, the increasing evidence of massive pulsars indicates the appearance of exotic degrees of freedom in the inner core of the pulsars. Given this, we consider the pulsar as a hybrid star (HS). This model opens up the possibility of vortex-pinning inside the core. Under the Gibbs equilibrium conditions, it is possible for hadrons and the quark phase to coexist. Due to the global charge neutrality condition, quark pasta structures are formed in the background of hadronic matter. We consider these pasta structures as pinning sites of superfluid vortices. We show that considering the core contribution, our calculations come to be of the order of $ΔΩ/Ω\sim 10^{-6}$, which is close to the observations shown by the Vela-like pulsars.
title Modeling large glitches with core superfluidity in a Hybrid star
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02467