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SETI@home Users Get More Signals to Analyze
By Associated Press
posted: 12:35 pm ET
28 March 2003
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Scientists finished a three-day session
searching for life in space with the world's premier radio telescope,
saying they found nothing but came away with new data to analyze.
The scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, observed and
recorded 227 "candidate'' radio signals, astronomer and team leader Dan
Werthimer said Tuesday.
The signals examined included 166 gleaned by home computer users
worldwide who have installed a special screen saver that analyzes data
from the telescope.
Now volunteers in the program called SETI@home will be using their
computers to analyze the latest signals gathered at Puerto Rico's
Arecibo Observatory.
"We're going to be sending this data out to volunteers around the
world,'' Werthimer said.
SETI@home is a separate extraterrestrial search effort from the SETI
Institute, a group that pursues several scientific and education
projects aimed at the discovering intelligent life elsewhere in the
universe.
More than 4 million volunteers have installed the SETI@home screen saver
and have already donated more than 1 million years of idle processing
power to sift through data on billions of potential radio signals.
The project is one of several efforts under SETI, the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Analyzing the new data will take a couple of months, Werthimer said.
With astrophysicist Eric Korpela and physics graduate student Paul
Demorest, Werthimer had been scheduled to use the radio telescope last
week from Tuesday through Thursday.
But a solar flare interrupted the work last Wednesday, forcing the SETI
team to postpone work as other scientists studied the flare. The team
concluded its work on Monday.
The 1,000-foot-wide (300-meter) dish, set in a sinkhole amid hills near
Puerto Rico's north-coast town of Arecibo, is the largest single-dish
radio telescope on Earth. It is owned by the U.S. National Science
Foundation and operated by Cornell University.
73 - Alan, ZL2VAL @ ZL2AB
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