the next steps in seti-italia science and technology
- Paper number
IAC-08.A4.1.9
- Author
Dr. Stelio Montebugnoli, INAF - National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy
- Coauthor
Prof. Dr. Cristiano Cosmovici, IFSI/INAF, Italy
- Coauthor
Dr. Jader Monari, INAF - National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy
- Coauthor
Mr. Salvatore Pluchino, INAF-IRA, Italy
- Coauthor
Ing. Luca Zoni, INAF - National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy
- Coauthor
Dr. Marco Bartolini, IRA-INAF, Italy
- Coauthor
Dr. Andrea orlati, IRA-INAF, Italy
- Coauthor
Dr. Emma Salerno, IRA-INAF, Italy
- Coauthor
Dr. Giuseppe Pupillo, OATO INAF, Italy
- Year
2008
- Abstract
The Italian Medicina Radioastronomy Station (nearby Bologna) is equipped with two antennas: the 32 mt (VLBI) dish and the Northern Cross, a large T-shaped parabolic/cylindrical antenna (30.000 sqm). So far SETI observations have been performed using a SERENDIP IV high resolution spectrometer connected to the VLBI dish in “piggy back” mode configuration. In order to facilitate data interpretation and to introduce innovative methods to search for possible extraterrestrial signals, we are planning to make use of the the large UHF Northern Cross transit telescope. Sky observations performed at least within two months, could provide for each day a number of matrices labeled according to the observing sidereal time. The entire set of matrices will be characterized an averaged spectrum on each row per each day. Keeping constant the transit antenna declination, if a coherent signal comes from a definite position of the sky, we will obtain a “flag on” in the same matrix at the same sidereal time. This means that such a detection could also be considered already “confirmed” since it comes from the same region of the sky and is observed regularly. An extremely powerful processing board based on a multi-FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) core has been developed and under programming. This is conceived to be the processing core for this new kind of investigations.
- Abstract document
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