Radio and optical SETI from the southern hemisphere

Guillermo A. Lemarchand; Gregory M. Beskin; Fernando Raul Colomb; Mariano Mendez

doi:10.1117/12.150119

6 August 1993 Radio and optical SETI from the southern hemisphere

Guillermo A. Lemarchand, Gregory M. Beskin, Fernando Raul Colomb, Mariano Mendez

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Proceedings Volume 1867, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.150119
Event: OE/LASE'93: Optics, Electro-Optics, and Laser Applications in Scienceand Engineering, 1993, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

A review of the SETI activities in the southern hemisphere over the past three decades is made. A description of the META II program, that is carried out from the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia (IAR), and that is continuously scanning the southern skies is described. META (Megachannel Extraterrestrial Assay) is an 8.4 million channels spectrum analyzer with a spectral resolution of 0.05 Hz, working at the 1,420 MHz hydrogen line at the Oak Ridge Harvard radio-observatory and at IAR. A description of the first optical SETI observing program from the southern hemisphere is made. For this purpose a high temporal resolution device called MANIA (Multichannel Analyzer of Nanosecond Intensity Alterations) will be used at the 2.15 m telescope of CASLEO (Complejo AStronomico El LEOncito) in the San Juan province in Argentina.

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Guillermo A. Lemarchand, Gregory M. Beskin, Fernando Raul Colomb, and Mariano Mendez "Radio and optical SETI from the southern hemisphere", Proc. SPIE 1867, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum, (6 August 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.150119

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