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Caption: Figure 5.
Fraction of the total moment of inertia carried by the crustal superfluid reservoir (﹩{I}_{{\rm{sf}}}^{{\rm{cr}}}/I﹩) as a function of neutron star mass. (a) Dependence on the symmetry energy slope L0 for both PKDD (solid lines) and DD-ME2 (dashed lines) interactions. The gray horizontal line marks the value required to explain the glitch step size of the 2016 Vela event. (b) Dependence on the effective mass ﹩{m}_{n}^{* }/{m}_{n}﹩, showing how stronger entrainment (larger ﹩{m}_{n}^{* }/{m}_{n}﹩) systematically reduces the available angular momentum reservoir. These trends directly determine the equilibrium glitch step size Δνeq.
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