AST 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Allen Telescope Array, Square Kilometre Array, Spectrum Analyzer

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Astronomy
• Course: AST 111
• Professor: Gromov

Document Summary

One of the largest seti searches to date has been project phoenix, run by the privately funded seti institute. The project searched 800 nearby stars using radio telescopes. Such a project is known as a targeted seti search. Work by adding a seti receiver to a radio telescope and using it to look for seti signals from wherever the telescope happens to be pointing in its normal astronomy work. The idea is that since we don"t" know where the extraterrestrials are, looking in one direction is an good as another. One such project is the serendip project run by the uc berkeley using the 1,000 foot. A new radio telescope being built by the seti institute. A huge radio telescope being developed as an international project. There are many natural sources of radio waves in the sky. Generally have a single precise wavelength and narrow bandwidth.