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1 Exploring the Unknown with CASPER Instrumentation Andrew Siemion CASPER Workshop 2011

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 The Allen Telescope Array Fly’s Eye Search for Fast Radio Transients

6 Siemion et al, “The Allen Telescope Array Fly’s Eye Search for Fast Radio Transients,” ApJ in press, arXiv:1109.2659

7 Kepler Field SETI

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9 Graphic: Wendy Stenzel / NASA

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11 Narrowband Emissions

12 e p e e e e p p p p e e e e p p p p Broadband Pulses

13 H2OO2H2OO2 Galactic Synchrotron Background Ionospheric Reflection

14 Kepler SETI Band 16 to 27 cm 1.1 to 1.9 GHz

15 21 cm hyperfine H 18 cm hyperfine OH “Water Hole”

16 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

17 Observations

18 5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs: Observations

19 ‘Traditional’ HZ: -50 C < T eq < 100 C 5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs: Observations

20 N candidates > 4 ‘Traditional’ HZ: -50 C < T eq < 100 C 5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs: Observations

21 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

22 11 hour raster scan of the entire Kepler field. 5 seconds per 10’ beam Observations Total Data set ~50 TB

23 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

24 Sensitivity Broadband Pulses at 10σ: SEFD = 10 Jy t integration =150s t pulse =10s EIRP x 10 6 @ 1000 ly ~1650 ly Narrowband Emission

25 The Allen Telescope Array Search for Electrostatic Discharge on Mars

26 Ruf et al, GRL, 2009

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29 Schumann Resonance

30 Peter McMahon 2008 +

31 HiTREKS - High Time Resolution Kurtosis Spectrometer

32 Peter McMahon 2008

33 Marin Anderson et al, ApJ Submitted, 2011

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35 Super-Giant Crab Pulses

36 Glenn Jones Main Pulse Inter Pulse R. Karuppusamy et al, 2010

37 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

38 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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