The SETI Radio Observational Project - Strategy, instrumentation, and objectivesThe paper describes strategies, tradeoffs, instrumentation, and overall objectives for the SETI Radio Observation Project. Novel approaches have been formulated in order to achieve coverage of the desirable frequency and spatial regimes (about 80% of the sky and in the frequency range of 1.4-25 GHz). A mixed strategy has been developed which uses the survey capability of small antennas and the sensitivity of modern maser amplifiers to achieve sensitivities comparable to those reached by previous observers, but with as much as 10,000 times the scope of both the frequency and spatial coverage possible to those experimenters.
Document ID
19790027329
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Edelson, R. E. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Gulkis, S. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Janssen, M. A. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Kuiper, T. B. H. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Morris, G. A. (California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena Calif., United States)
Date Acquired
August 9, 2013
Publication Date
October 1, 1978
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
IAF PAPER 78-A-43
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Astronautical Federation, International Astronautical Congress