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SETI@Home data

BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
[url]http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/newsletters/rescore/gb_rescored.html[/url]

Explanation from the guy who sent it to me....

The probability of SAHGb02+14a having noise as the basis of its signal dropped
from 1.3099e-09 to 8.75585893341845e-19 upon reobservation.

In other words, when SETI looked directly at that star (instead of just passing
by it with the telescope) the statistics improved from an awesome score to a
mind-boggling high score.

This is very good news. SETI says that even if it finds proof positive of
extra-terrestrial life that it will continue to analyze the other half of its
data. I think those boys are getting excited and so should we.

Comments

  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Cool!
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Damn!
  • C_MonC_Mon A Genuine Sucker
    Shit!
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    I wonder if the ITF seti group is still around
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    Awsome news, but I've got a couple questions

    First, what are Barycentric Gaussians?

    Second do we know what star it is and its distance from earth?

    Finally, what do they look for in the signal, just strength or certain patterns?

    Jake
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    I'd like to know the answers to those questions too.

    Worf
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Barycentric = narrow band frequency window
    non-barycentric = wide band frequency window

    i.e. barycentric is when you concentrate on fewer frequencies.

    Where is it?
    On the sky:
    Right ascension: 2 hours
    Declination: 14 degrees

    Now what they look for:

    Spikes: radio waves that differ enough in strength from the surrounding noise
    Gaussian: If the noise fits on a radion wave i.e. curve
    Pulses: Repeating spikes
    Triplets: Three pulses equally spaces from each other, either from the same frequency, or from differing frequencies equally spaced from each other
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Its really surprising that when something this HUGE comes up, almost noone views the topic, probably because of the boring title ;)
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    I suppose that's a consistent failing of mine; I like to choose rather non-descript titles. That way, nobody knows exactly what to expect from the message contents.

    Still, I'd think the presence of SETI in there would trigger more clicks.

    Oh, well.
  • shadow boxershadow boxer The Finger Painter & Master Ranter
    what was the dudes name ? the guy who was Nerd wrangling us FO's into getting into munging SETI data ?

    Cactus head ?

    Havent seen or heard of him in eons.

    How far away is this signal source ? Any chance of setting up a chat session ? :D
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    The guy who wrote that to me?

    A friend of mine, an engineer living in Utah. Met him at a Weird Al concert in LA. He's an avid fan of the SETI@Home project; I imagine he was just browsing through the list of top candidates when he saw that entry and flipped. I would be very surprised to hear he had ever been referred to as Cactus Head. And I don't think he's ever been to this board, given that I only just started him on B5 a few months ago.

    I'll ask him about the distance.

    Edit: General information: [url]http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/newsletters/newsletter21.html[/url]
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by croxis [/i]
    [B]I wonder if the ITF seti group is still around [/B][/QUOTE]
    [url]http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_15090.html[/url]
    At least someone are still active.


    Well, I would have little over 1200 results, but I'm currently already member of one group:
    [url]http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_3128.html[/url] (You can guess my name using amount of results... and my forum's username)
  • PhiPhi <font color=#FF0000>C</font><font color=#FF9900>o</font><font color=#FFFF00>l</font><font color=#00F
    That reminds me I was going to download SETI@Home for my computer... What addons to people reccomend?
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    None. Just plain, no frills SETI@Home. Stick your mouse in a corner and watch it work. That's the way God meant it to be.

    Though there was one interesting one that would put little pin marks on a star map you could see where all the signals you've decoded came from.

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by E.T [/i]
    [B](You can guess my name using amount of results... and my forum's username) [/B][/QUOTE]

    And I always thought it had something to do with Extra Terrestrials. That'll teach me to make assumptions. At least I never mentioned it and made a fool of myself.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Phi [/i]
    [B]That reminds me I was going to download SETI@Home for my computer... What addons to people reccomend? [/B][/QUOTE]
    I use Seti Monitor for caching WUs.
    [url]http://www.zrlm.com/highstress/setimon/[/url]

    Also this is pretty nice for getting statistics.
    [url]http://www.cox-internet.com/setispy/[/url]
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by David of Mac [/i]
    [B]And I always thought it had something to do with Extra Terrestrials. That'll teach me to make assumptions.[/B][/QUOTE]
    Sorry to disappoint you.
    I just picked this because it fitted so well to my name.
    Well, at least my first name is nice! (if name doesn't ring the bell, maybe this helps: [url=http://www.esa.int/]"nice site"[/url]
    And it was nice to have own name in suit. ([url=http://koti.mbnet.fi/~tuunaes/Space2003/guides.jpg]nice suit[/url], or what you think? :D)


    BTW, If anyone of you have telescope, Saturn's rings shows very nicely now, also you can see planet's shadow on them. (You'll find Saturn from Gemini, to upper left from Orion and Betelgeuze)
    I had almost forgotten what it feels when there's only -5 celsius and you don't need to wear your whole wardrobe to keep warm.
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    In answer to SB's question:

    [quote]Unknown.

    -------------
    Please note that SETI@home does not release detailed candidate coordinates
    until candidates have been reobserved with sufficient sensitivity to
    definitively confirm or reject the candidate.
    -------------[/quote]
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by croxis [/i]
    [B]I wonder if the ITF seti group is still around [/B][/QUOTE

    [url]http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_15090.html[/url]]
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