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title: PRESTO
message: >-
  If you use this software, please at least cite the ASCL
  link below. But even better, please cite the relevant
  research papers listed below or in the README.
type: software
authors:
  - given-names: Scott
    family-names: Ransom
    email: sransom@nrao.edu
    affiliation: NRAO / Univ. of Virginia
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5799-9714'
identifiers:
  - type: url
    value: 'https://ascl.net/1107.017'
    description: ASCL entry
repository-code: 'https://github.com/scottransom/presto'
abstract: >-
  PRESTO is a large suite of pulsar search and analysis
  software developed primarily by Scott Ransom.
keywords:
  - astronomy
  - pulsars
  - timing
license: GPL-2.0
preferred-citation:
  title: "New search techniques for binary pulsars"
  notes: "Cite this for general uses of PRESTO"
  year: "2001"
  type: generic
  thesis-type: "PhD thesis"
  authors:
    - family-names: Ransom
      given-names: Scott M.
  institution:
    name: "Harvard University"
  url: "https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001PhDT.......123R"
references:
  - title: "Fourier Techniques for Very Long Astrophysical Time-Series Analysis"
    notes: "Cite this if you use accelsearch (acceleration search)"
    doi: "10.1086/342285"
    year: "2002"
    type: article
    journal: "AJ"
    authors:
      - family-names: Ransom
        given-names: Scott M.
      - family-names: Eikenberry
        given-names: Stephen S.
      - family-names: Middleditch
        given-names: John.
    url: "https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002AJ....124.1788R"
  - title: "A New Search Technique for Short Orbital Period Binary Pulsars"
    notes: "Cite this if you use searchbin (phase modulation search)"
    doi: "10.1086/374806"
    year: "2003"
    type: article
    journal: "ApJ"
    authors:
      - family-names: Ransom
        given-names: Scott M.
      - family-names: Cordes
        given-names: James M.
      - family-names: Eikenberry
        given-names: Stephen S.
    url: "https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...589..911R"
  - title: "A Fourier Domain Jerk Search for Binary Pulsars"
    notes: "Cite this if you use accelsearch (jerk search)"
    doi: "10.3847/2041-8213/aad59f"
    year: "2018"
    type: article
    journal: "ApJL"
    authors:
      - family-names: Andersen
        given-names: Bridget C.
      - family-names: Ransom
        given-names: Scott M.
    url: "https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...863L..13A"