SETI@home Reobservation Report
Eric Korpela, Jeff Cobb, Dan Werthimer, Matt Lebofsky
A bit more than a year ago the SETI@home team was granted 24 hours at the Arecibo observatory to reobserve the best candidate locations detected by volunteers running the SETI@home screen saver. (For details, check out the Planetary Society’s reports on the reobservations here.)
At Arecibo, we were able to observe 226 points on the sky, containing many of the best SETI@home candidates, several candidates found by the SERENDIP project, and some interesting astronomical objects, including a few known planetary systems and external galaxies.
We sent out the data resulting from these observations to our SETI@home volunteers (that means you). To people who got this data, there was no visible difference between it, and ordinary SETI@home data. For each of these work-units, we scanned the verified results for signals similar to the candidates.
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The candidates we reobserved came from the first 2 years of SETI@home observations, so we’ve still got some work to do. We’re working to identify a new set of candidates, and we will ask to be allowed to look at them with the Arecibo telescope. SETI@home will continue with a new software architecture (BOINC) and new hardware at Arecibo (ALFA , SERENDIP V ) that will perform a comprehensive survey of the sky.
SETI@home Reobservation Report
btw, have someone heard the new Rumor, that Seti1 will end at 17 May it’s 5th year anniversary…
Sir Ulli