Candidate: 921360 (RA: 2.630859 Dec: 26.714449)


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Message 927263 - Posted: 19 Aug 2009, 21:28:48 UTC
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This is a discussion thread for SETI@home candidate # 921360 (located at RA: 2.630859 Dec: 26.714449)
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Message 927294 - Posted: 19 Aug 2009, 22:43:22 UTC - in response to Message 927263.  
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OK... I'll shoot some first-glance observations:

1	921360 		 2.630859 	26.714449 	9589 (309/2395) 	1542 (27/673) 	2394 (41/1003) 	2635 (17/921) 	0 	-3.614816e+6 	0 	12 Aug 2009 15:08:24 UTC 	skyplot / discuss
2	20582818 	22.973145 	16.295956 	9292 (389/2328) 	1363 (18/620) 	2583 (94/1005) 	1126 (4/444) 	0 	-3.216304e+6 	0 	12 Aug 2009 23:16:30 UTC 	skyplot / discuss
3	20582801 	22.987793 	16.295956 	11459 (524/2760) 	1476 (21/698) 	2717 (95/1076) 	1478 (5/553) 	0 	-3.207500e+6 	0 	17 Aug 2009 16:23:16 UTC 	skyplot / discuss
4	20504996 	23.165039 	16.315388 	9831 (430/2618) 	454 (2/171) 	1074 (18/459) 	1502 (12/605) 	0 	-3.151631e+6 	0 	15 Aug 2009 19:47:23 UTC 	skyplot / discuss
5	20493683 	23.144531 	15.771995 	11087 (485/2703) 	1245 (15/552) 	2255 (64/963) 	1680 (11/659) 	0 	-3.052986e+6 	0 	13 Aug 2009 12:01:23 UTC 	skyplot / discuss
6	20499128 	23.165039 	15.771995 	7685 (272/2128) 	336 (0/134) 	845 (16/342) 	1161 (10/472) 	0 	-3.011546e+6 	0 	10 Aug 2009 13:34:35 UTC 	skyplot / discuss
7	20504975 	23.167969 	16.315388 	7381 (277/2098) 	405 (0/148) 	954 (13/382) 	1159 (3/470) 	0 	-2.880384e+6 	0 	15 Aug 2009 19:53:59 UTC 	skyplot / discuss
8	20496034 	23.020020 	16.295956 	11081 (530/2724) 	1573 (28/705) 	2891 (89/1175) 	1414 (1/548) 	0 	-2.427523e+6 	0 	13 Aug 2009 10:51:10 UTC 	skyplot / discuss
9	20504984 	23.170898 	16.315388 	6539 (221/1805) 	367 (0/136) 	854 (14/365) 	830 (4/345) 	0 	-2.135665e+6 	0 	7 Aug 2009 12:48:27 UTC 	skyplot / discuss
10	31427657 	19.322754 	13.478055 	5814 (141/1682) 	19 (0/0) 	9613 (558/295) 	2688 (38/1048) 	0 	-1.818493e+6 	0 	13 Aug 2009 5:19:59 UTC


"1" and "10" look to be out on their own.

For the others, there's groupings whereby multiple candidates look to be on adjacent RA or Dec positions. Is that for real, or just a quirk of recent sampling or an artefact of RFI counts?

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Message 927295 - Posted: 19 Aug 2009, 22:51:08 UTC
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From the NitPicker FAQ;

Q: Why are so many candidates at the same Declination?

A: Quite often the telescope at Arecibo is "parked" when not in use by other projects. When it's parked it is sitting at a single line of Declination (while the Right Ascension changes due to earth rotation). However, since we are collecting all the time we get an excess of data from these parked Declinations (like 18, which is quite common).

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I think thats the reason Martin.

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Message 927544 - Posted: 20 Aug 2009, 20:42:26 UTC

How much of a diagonal sweep would an extraterrestrial source be expected to produce on these waterfall plots?
Some plots seem to be very slightly diagonal; ending up at a fractionally smaller frequency than where they start out. However, I've no feeling for whether this very small frequency drift is interesting or is within the limits of what we'd expect to see for terrestrial RFI.
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