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Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Who decides what part of the sky to scan for data collection? Is Arecibo the only source of the data? The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30649 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Who decides what part of the sky to scan for data collection? Semi-random. We listen when others allow and we don't get to point. Also obvious restriction of where the telescope can point. Is Arecibo the only source of the data? For now, but that is going to change assuming there is enough cash donated to get the software written to process data from additional sources. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Who decides what part of the sky to scan for data collection? That's kind of what I thought. Is this because SETI doesn't have the money to buy time on it? I wonder how much it costs? (Not that I'm planning my own mini-project, lol) The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22200 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Cost is the biggest driver in piggybacking off other telescope users collection. It is actually quite efficient to use the same collection time window for several projects that are not too interested in a specific point in space, but are doing a general sweep. SETI@Home did get some money to do a little bit of targeted collection using the GBT(?), but that data has not been released to us as the splitters haven't been configured to work with it. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
SETI@Home did get some money to do a little bit of targeted collection using the GBT(?), but that data has not been released to us as the splitters haven't been configured to work with it. Green Bank? That's good. I was curious what other telescopes might be able to be used. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22200 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Currently two additional potential sources GBT & LOFAR. The main focus of the work appears to be on getting the data collection chain working on the GBT - that is from tapping and recording the signal through to the database work needed to store the results from our efforts, and hopefully something to screen those results. As far as I'm aware the GBT produces more data per second of observation than Arecibo, probably due to it having a larger bandwidth. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
We don't need a bigger haystack. We need a bigger magnet. |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
We don't need a bigger haystack. We need a bigger magnet. Well said. :~) The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22200 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
...the wider bandwidth is a effectively a bigger magnet Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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