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Exploring the Unknown with CASPER Instrumentation Andrew Siemion CASPER Workshop 2011
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Kara Kundert Glen Langston Matt Lebofsky Arielle Little David MacMahon Ron Maddalena Geoff Marcy Peter McMahon Imke de Pater Zac Rzesniowiecki Laura Spitler Jill Tarter Josh Von Korff Mark Wagner Dan Werthimer Dave Anderson Marin Anderson Geoff Bower Jeff Cobb Jim Cordes Henry Chen Gregory Delory Paul Demorest Matt Dexter Terry Filiba John Ford Griffin Foster Abhimat Gautam Andrew Howard Eric Korpela
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Kara Kundert Glen Langston Matt Lebofsky Arielle Little David MacMahon Ron Maddalena Geoff Marcy Peter McMahon Imke de Pater Zac Rzesniowiecki Laura Spitler Jill Tarter Josh Von Korff Mark Wagner Dan Werthimer Dave Anderson Marin Anderson Geoff Bower Jeff Cobb Jim Cordes Henry Chen Gregory Delory Paul Demorest Matt Dexter Terry Filiba John Ford Griffin Foster Abhimat Gautam Andrew Howard Eric Korpela Dan Werthimer
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Kara Kundert Glen Langston Matt Lebofsky Arielle Little David MacMahon Ron Maddalena Geoff Marcy Peter McMahon Imke de Pater Zac Rzesniowiecki Laura Spitler Jill Tarter Josh Von Korff Mark Wagner Dan Werthimer Dave Anderson Marin Anderson Geoff Bower Jeff Cobb Jim Cordes Henry Chen Gregory Delory Paul Demorest Matt Dexter Terry Filiba John Ford Griffin Foster Abhimat Gautam Andrew Howard Eric Korpela Zac Rzesniowiecki Kara Kundert Abhimat Gautam Marin Anderson
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The Allen Telescope Array Fly’s Eye Search for Fast Radio Transients
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Siemion et al, “The Allen Telescope Array Fly’s Eye Search for Fast Radio Transients,” ApJ in press, arXiv:1109.2659
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Kepler Field SETI
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Graphic: Wendy Stenzel / NASA
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Narrowband Emissions
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e p e e e e p p p p e e e e p p p p Broadband Pulses
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H2OO2H2OO2 Galactic Synchrotron Background Ionospheric Reflection
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Kepler SETI Band 16 to 27 cm 1.1 to 1.9 GHz
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21 cm hyperfine H 18 cm hyperfine OH “Water Hole”
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Green Bank Ultimate Pulsar Machine (GUPPI) 8 bit sampling ➡ 2 bit quantization Raw ‘baseband’ recording 800 MHz bandwidth, 2 polarizations ~ 1 gigabyte/second to disk
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Observations
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5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs: Observations
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‘Traditional’ HZ: -50 C < T eq < 100 C 5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs: Observations
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N candidates > 4 ‘Traditional’ HZ: -50 C < T eq < 100 C 5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs: Observations
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N candidates > 4 ‘Traditional’ HZ: -50 C < T eq < 100 C Small, long period P > 50d && R p < 3 R E 5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs: Observations
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11 hour raster scan of the entire Kepler field. 5 seconds per 10’ beam Observations Total Data set ~50 TB
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SETI@Home Astropulse Kepler Search Analysis Locally Performed Synthesized coarse filterbank Incoherent dispersed pulse search Synthesized high resolution spectrometer Incoherent Doppler drift search Abhimat Gautam, see Poster
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Sensitivity Broadband Pulses at 10σ: SEFD = 10 Jy t integration =150s t pulse =10s EIRP x 10 6 @ 1000 ly ~1650 ly Narrowband Emission
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The Allen Telescope Array Search for Electrostatic Discharge on Mars
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Ruf et al, GRL, 2009
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Schumann Resonance
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Peter McMahon 2008 +
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HiTREKS - High Time Resolution Kurtosis Spectrometer
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Peter McMahon 2008
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Marin Anderson et al, ApJ Submitted, 2011
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Super-Giant Crab Pulses
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Glenn Jones Main Pulse Inter Pulse R. Karuppusamy et al, 2010
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3.6m Leuschner Observatory Radio Telescope Super-Giant Crab Pulses Main Pulse Inter Pulse Zac Rzesniowiecki, see Poster Main Pulse Inter Pulse R. Karuppusamy et al, 2010 400 MHz full Stokes ROACH Spectrometer
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Zac Rzesniowiecki, see Poster 3.6m Leuschner Observatory Radio Telescope Super-Giant Crab Pulses Main Pulse Inter Pulse Main Pulse Inter Pulse R. Karuppusamy et al, 2010 400 MHz full Stokes ROACH Spectrometer See Poster Questions?
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