From 44d855b4aea04d6957b07ccf6e77b62df251a211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Ransom Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:40:34 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] More small README tweaks --- README.md | 29 ++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1f3c1a590..849b08761 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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 @@ -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 @@ -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 @@ -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