The amount of crustal entrainment and the type of Vela-like pulsars

Understand

The "glitch crisis" of Vela-like pulsars has been a great debate recently.

• It might challenge the standard two-component glitch model, because large fractions of superfluid neutrons are thought to be entrained in the lattices of the crust part, then there is not enough superfluid neutrons to trigger the large glitches in Vela-like pulsars.
• But the amount of entrainment which could effectively constrain the fractional moment of inertia of a pulsar, is very uncertain.
• In order to examine the importance of this parameter on the inner structures of neutron stars, we relax the "glitch crisis" argument, employ a set of most developed equations of state derived within microscopic many-body approaches that could fulfill the recent 2-solar-mass constraint, and evaluate their predictions for the fractional moment of inertia with two extremes of crustal entrainment.