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Spin Up in Neutron Stars : The Future of the Vela Pulsar

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Assuming that the speed up of the Vela pulsar was caused by a “starquake”, a number of predictions can be made, and the event can be taken as evidence that the interior of the pulsar is a superfluid.

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  1. CHRISTOPHER PETHICK: On leave of absence from Magdalen College, Oxford, England.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 61801

    GORDON BAYM, CHRISTOPHER PETHICK & DAVID PINES

  2. Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10027

    MALVIN RUDERMAN

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BAYM, G., PETHICK, C., PINES, D. et al. Spin Up in Neutron Stars : The Future of the Vela Pulsar. Nature 224, 872–874 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224872a0

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