PROGRESS REPORT (9/11)

Major accomplishments during the past 2 weeks:
* Since the Exemplar didn't come back up until last Saturday because of an
unexpected delay, all I could do last week was test my script for more
known pulsars and read more about pulsars.
* I read about distances of pulsars, pulse timing, galactic population of
pulsars, and supernovae.  When I have time next, I will read about binary
and millisecond pulsars, which are important for me in this project.
* Out of the 14 known pulsars I've tested, my script found 11 -- the other
3 had low signal-to-noise-ratio because 2 of them had DM of 252 and 269
and the other one was barely in the telescope's window.
* When the Exemplar came up, I modified Josh's scripts to make them easier
to use and more efficient, and changed or added PulsarPack options for
best search result based on my testing with known pulsars.
* I automated the process of making a unique zap file for each file so
that noise can be ignored more completely.
* I made the information file corresponding to each of the 5300 data files
and transferred all of them to Neptune for use by the PulsarPack.

Problems encountered:
	My script has not been able to find the 3 known pulsars with low
signal-to-noise-ratio, but my plan is to just lower the threshold
confidence level so they will be included in the candidate list even
though I will then be looking at more non-pulsars as well.

Research goals for next two weeks:
	I am currently testing the modified scripts, so this weekend I
will fix any bugs in the program.
	Because I've waited long enough to start doing the actual search,
I will definitely try to start searching for cool pulsars next week!