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Three Years of SETI@home: A Status Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2017

Eric J. Korpela ,
Jeff Cobb ,
Steve Fulton ,
Matt Lebofsky ,
Eric Heien ,
Eric Person ,
Paul Demorest ,
Robert Bankay ,
David Anderson  and
Dan Werthimer
Eric J. Korpela
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, U.S.A.
Jeff Cobb
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, U.S.A.
Steve Fulton
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, U.S.A.
Matt Lebofsky
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, U.S.A.
Eric Heien
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, U.S.A.
Eric Person
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, U.S.A.
Paul Demorest
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, U.S.A.
Robert Bankay
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, U.S.A.
David Anderson
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, U.S.A.
Dan Werthimer
Affiliation:
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450, U.S.A.

Abstract

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The SETI@home project has recently completed its third year of active data analysis. Over 4 million volunteers have joined the search, providing a combined total of over 1 million CPU-years of processing power. SETI@home performs a sensitive search for extraterrestrial signals in a 2.5 MHz band centered on 1420 MHz. SETI@home searches a wide parameter space including 14 octaves of signal bandwidth and 15 octaves of pulse period with Doppler drift corrections from −50 Hz/s to +50 Hz/s. We will briefly describe the SETI@home project and the algorithms used in the SETI@home client. We will describe the post-processing methods we use to reject RFI and select candidate signals from the nearly 4 billion “hits” returned by SETI@home clients.

Type
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 213: Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the stars , 2004 , pp. 419 - 422
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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