Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
More small README tweaks
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
scottransom committed Jan 30, 2014
1 parent e72f279 commit 44d855b
Showing 1 changed file with 14 additions and 15 deletions.
29 changes: 14 additions & 15 deletions README.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ of X-ray data as well). It is written primarily in ANSI C, with many
of the recent routines in Python. According to Steve Eikenberry,
PRESTO stands for: **PulsaR Exploration and Search TOolkit**!

## New in version 2:
** To date, PRESTO has discovered over 300 pulsars, including
more than 150 recycled pulsars, most of which are in binaries! **

## New in Version 2:
* WAPP, BCPM, Spigot, and 1-bit analog filterbank data are deprecated!
(see below)
* Dramatically improved internal handling (giving better dynamic
Expand All @@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ machines or formats:

* PSRFITS search-format data (as from GUPPI at the GBT, PUPPI and
the Mock Spectrometers at Arecibo, and much new and archived data
from Parkes
from Parkes)
* 1-, 2-, 4-, 8-, and 32-bit (float) filterbank format from SIGPROC
* A time series composed of single precision (i.e. 4-byte)
floating point data
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -92,11 +95,8 @@ provide limited support via email or telephone (434-296-0320).

**Tutorial**: Note that in the "docs" directory there is a now a
tutorial which walks you through all the main steps of finding pulsars
using PRESTO.

To date, PRESTO has discovered well over two hundred pulsars,
including more than 120 recycled pulsars, most of which are in
binaries!
using PRESTO. This will need some small modifications given that
PRESTO can't currently process one of the example files (BCPM!).

## Getting it:
The PRESTO source code is released under the GPL and
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -148,14 +148,13 @@ above is appropriate. Thanks!

### Acknowledgements:
Big thanks go to Steve Eikenberry for his help developing the
algorithms, Dunc Lorimer for the basic code which is used to process
algorithms, Dunc Lorimer for the basic code which was used to process
BCPM and WAPP data, David Kaplan for lots of help with the GBT SPIGOT
code, Jason Hessels for many contributions to the Python routines (and
along with Maggie Livingstone for the rednoise reduction routine),
Anne Archibald (for significant help with the recent accelsearch
improvements), and Paul Demorest, Paul Ray, Paul Scholz, Ingrid
Stairs, Fernando Camilo, Cees Bassa, Patrick Lazarus, Mike Keith,
Slavko Bogdanov, Kevin Stovall, and Paulo Freire for many comments and
suggestions (and even some patches!).
code, Jason Hessels for many contributions to the Python routines, and
a bunch of other contributions of various kinds from (alphabetical):
Anne Archibald, Cees Bassa, Slavko Bogdanov, Fernando Camilo, Paul
Demorest, Paulo Freire, Mike Keith, Patrick Lazarus, Maggie
Livingstone, Paul Ray, Paul Scholz, Ingrid Stairs, Kevin Stovall, and
for many comments, suggestions and patches!

Scott Ransom <[email protected]>

0 comments on commit 44d855b

Please sign in to comment.