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Status of the UC-Berkeley SETI Efforts

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2011-11-30 v2 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

Abstract

We summarize radio and optical SETI programs based at the University of California, Berkeley. The SEVENDIP optical pulse search looks for ns time scale pulses at visible wavelengths using an automated 30 inch telescope. The ongoing SERENDIP V.v sky survey searches for radio signals at the 300 meter Arecibo Observatory. The currently installed configuration supports 128 million channels over a 200 MHz bandwidth with ~1.6 Hz spectral resolution. SETI@home uses the desktop computers of volunteers to analyze over 160 TB of data at taken at Arecibo looking for two types of continuous wave signals and two types of pulsed signals. A version to be released this summer adds autocorrelation analysis to look for complex wave forms that have been repeated (and overlayed) after a short delay. SETI@home will soon be processing data of Kepler exoplanet systems collected at the GBT. The Astropulse project is the first SETI search for μ\mus time scale dispersed pulses in the radio spectrum. We recently reobserved 114 sky locations where microsecond pulses were detected. This data is in process of being transferred to Berkeley for analysis.

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@article{arxiv.1108.3134,
  title  = {Status of the UC-Berkeley SETI Efforts},
  author = {Eric J. Korpela and David P. Anderson and Robert Bankay and Jeff Cobb and Andrew Howard and Matt Lebofsky and Andrew P. V. Siemion and Joshua von Korff and Dan Werthimer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3134},
  year   = {2011}
}

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8 pages, including 1 figure. Presented at SPIE Conf. 8152, San Diego, CA, Aug 25, 2011

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