Here we describe our ongoing efforts to develop high-performance and sensitive instrumentation for use in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI). These efforts include our recently deployed Search for Extraterrestrial Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations Spectrometer (SERENDIP V.v) and two instruments currently under development; the Heterogeneous Radio SETI Spectrometer (HRSS) for SETI observations in the radio spectrum and the Optical SETI Fast Photometer (OSFP) for SETI observations in the optical band. We will discuss the basic SERENDIP V.v instrument design and initial analysis methodology, along with instrument architectures and observation strategies for OSFP and HRSS. In addition, we will demonstrate how these instruments may be built using low-cost, modular components and programmed and operated by students using common languages, e.g. ANSI C.
@article{arxiv.1109.1136,
title = {Current and Nascent SETI Instruments},
author = {Andrew P. V. Siemion and Jeff Cobb and Henry Chen and Jim Cordes and Terry Filiba and Griffin Foster and Adam Fries and Andrew Howard and Josh von Korff and Eric Korpela and Matt Lebofsky and Peter L. McMahon and Aaron Parsons and Laura Spitler and Mark Wagner and Dan Werthimer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1136},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
12 pages, 5 figures, Original version appears as Chapter 2 in "The Proceedings of SETI Sessions at the 2010 Astrobiology Science Conference: Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI)," Douglas A. Vakoch, Editor