The glitch activity of rotation-powered pulsars

A statistical study of the glitch population and the behavior of the glitch activity across the known population of neutron stars is presented. A constant ratio between the glitch activity and the spin-down rate \rm {g}$/|| = 0.010 +/- 0.001 is consistent with the behavior of all rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars. This relation is dominated by large glitches (Δν >~ 10 μ Hz), which occur at a rate directly proportional to ||. The only exception are the rotation-powered pulsars with the highest values of ||, such as the Crab pulsar and PSR B0540-69, which exhibit a much smaller glitch activity, intrinsically different from each other and from the rest of the population. This contribution is based on the work done by Fuentes et al. (2017) ``The glitch activity of neutron stars'', accepted for publication in A&A.