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The paper describes the software package SAST developed for detection and description of periodicities and other irregular time structures in gamma-ray timing data. The package has been successfully used for the analysis of the photon arrival times measured by the COS-B satellite for gamma-ray astronomy and of the times derived from some observations of the Cerenkov telescope at the Potchefstroom University (South Africa).
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Buccheri, R., Busetta, M., Maccarone, M.C. (1992). SAST - A Software Package for the Statistical Analysis of Sparse Times. In: Di Gesù, V., Scarsi, L., Buccheri, R., Crane, P., Maccarone, M.C., Zimmermann, H.U. (eds) Data Analysis in Astronomy IV. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 59. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3388-7_6
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