1998/03/06 by Norman K. Glendenning · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Millisecond #Millisecond pulsar #Phase (matter) #Pulsar #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #SIGNAL (programming language) #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Spins #astro-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0375-9474(98)00355-8
published in Nuclear Physics A 638(1-2), 239c-248c (Elsevier BV) · 12 pages, 11 figures, Latex-espcrc1.sty (Dec. 1997, Plenary Talk to appear in Nuclear Physics A in the Proceedings of Quark Matter97, Tsukuba, Japan)
arxiv created 1998/03/06 · openalex publication_date 1998/08/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A solitary millisecond pulsar, if near the mass limit, and undergoing a phase transition, either first or second order, provided the transition is to a substantially more compressible phase, will emit a blatantly obvious signal---spontaneous spin-up. Normally a pulsar spins down by angular momentum loss to radiation. The signal is trivial to detect and is estimated to be ``on'' for 1/50 of the spin-down era of millisecond pulsars. Presently about 25 solitary millisecond pulsars are known. The phenomenon is analogous to ``backbending'' observed in high spin nuclei in the 1970's.