Pulsar Speedups Related to Metastability of the Superfluid Neutron-Star Core
- 17 April 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 28 (16), 1080-1082
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.1080
Abstract
The sudden speed changes observed in the Vela and Crab pulsars may be caused by transitions between metastable flow states in the superfluid interior of the star.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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