Pulsar spin-down: the glitch-dominated rotation of PSR J0537-6910

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The young, fast-spinning, X-ray pulsar J0537-6910 displays an extreme glitch activity, with large spin-ups interrupting its decelerating rotation every ~100 days.

• We present nearly 13 years of timing data from this pulsar, obtained with the {\it Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer}.
• We discovered 22 new glitches and performed a consistent analysis of all 45 glitches detected in the complete data span.
• Our results corroborate the previously reported strong correlation between glitch spin-up size and the time to the next glitch, a relation that has not been observed so far in any other pulsar.