Glitches and pinned vorticity in the Crab pulsar.
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.
Physics Department, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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