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of the recent routines in Python. According to Steve Eikenberry, | ||
PRESTO stands for: **PulsaR Exploration and Search TOolkit**! | ||
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## New in version 2: | ||
** To date, PRESTO has discovered over 300 pulsars, including | ||
more than 150 recycled pulsars, most of which are in binaries! ** | ||
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## New in Version 2: | ||
* WAPP, BCPM, Spigot, and 1-bit analog filterbank data are deprecated! | ||
(see below) | ||
* Dramatically improved internal handling (giving better dynamic | ||
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* 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 | ||
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**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. | ||
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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!). | ||
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## Getting it: | ||
The PRESTO source code is released under the GPL and | ||
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### 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! | ||
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Scott Ransom <[email protected]> |