Commensal programs for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), carried out concurrently with conventional radio astronomical observing programs, can be an attractive and cost-effective means of exploring the large multidimensional search space intrinsic to this effort. Our automated commensal system, SERENDIP II, is a high resolution 131,072 channel spectrometer. It searches for 0.49 Hz signals in sequential 64,700 Hz bands of the IF signal from a radio telescope being used for an astronomical observation. Upon detection of a narrow band signal with power above a preset threshold, the frequency, power, time, and telescope direction are recorded for later study. The system has been tested at the Hat Creek Radio Astronomy Observatory 85 ft telescope and the NASA-JPL Deep Space Station (DSS 14) 64 m telescope. It is currently collecting data at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory 300 ft telescope.


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    Title :

    A search for narrow band signals with SERENDIP II: a progress report


    Contributors:
    Werthimer, D. (author) / Brady, R. (author) / Berezin, A. (author) / Bowyer, S. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1988-01-01



    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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