The paper describes strategies, tradeoffs, instrumentation, and overall objectives for the SETI Radio Observation Project. Novel approaches have been formulated in order to achieve coverage of the desirable frequency and spatial regimes (about 80% of the sky and in the frequency range of 1.4-25 GHz). A mixed strategy has been developed which uses the survey capability of small antennas and the sensitivity of modern maser amplifiers to achieve sensitivities comparable to those reached by previous observers, but with as much as 10,000 times the scope of both the frequency and spatial coverage possible to those experimenters.


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    Title :

    The SETI Radio Observational Project - Strategy, instrumentation, and objectives


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Astronautical Federation, International Astronautical Congress ; 1978 ; Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia


    Publication date :

    1978-10-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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