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SETI: The Microwave Search Problem and the Targeted Search Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Charles L. Seeger  and
John H. Wolfe
Charles L. Seeger
Affiliation:
NASA Ames Research Center, M/S:229-8 Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA
John H. Wolfe
Affiliation:
NASA Ames Research Center, M/S:229-8 Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA

Abstract

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The targeted search component of the NASA SETI program is limited to time sharing in the usual fashion on existing large radio telescopes. Unless the consequences of this restriction are compensated by increased capability in the SETI electronic systems, an undesirable loss in sensitivity must be accepted in order to prevent a more costly and humanly unattractive lengthening of the projected five-year observing program to a duration of some decades.

Type
Section VI. Technological Progress in Radio Searches
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 112: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Recent Developments , 1985 , pp. 391 - 395
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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