Observers
Siemion A.
WERTHIMER D.
Chen H.
Cobb J.
Filiba T.
Fries A.
Howard A.
KORPELA E.
Lebofsky M.
Mallard W.
Spitler L.
Wagner M.
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Siemion, A., Werthimer, D., Chen, H., Cobb, J., Filiba, T., Fries, A., Howard, A., Korpela, E., Lebofsky, M., Mallard, W., Spitler, L., Wagner, M.. "Current and Nascent SETI Intruments in the Radio and Optical: SERENDIP V. v, OSPOSH and HRSS," Astrobiology Conference 2010: Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond, held April 20-26 2010 in League City, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1538, p. 5378 (2010).
This article describe ongoing efforts to develop high-performance and sensitive information to be used in SETI searches. These efforts are SERENDIP V.v, HRSS (Heterogenous Radio SETI Spectrometer) and OSPOSH (Open Sourse Pulsed Optical SETI Hardware). SERENDIP V.v uses an FPGA (field programmable gate array) based spectrometer. It looks for narrow-band signals and observes 2 billion channels acorss seven 3 arc-minute beams. OSPOSH looks for nanosecond scale light pulses that are not known to occur naturally. HRSS uses a high-speed analog-to-digital converter along with an FPGA. It digitizes, packets, and transmits CPUs and GPUs (graphic processing units) for spectroscopy. It will be available to researchers and students around the world.