The Search for Extraterrestrials Intercepting Alien Signals /
In The Search for Extraterrestrials, Monte Ross explores in detail the key problems in starting a search, the programs that have failed and those that continue. He includes the fundamental considerations and the physics of the necessary laser, UV, IR and RF technologies, as well as coding and inform...
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| Format: | Electronic |
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New York, NY :
Praxis,
2009.
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| Series: | Springer Praxis Books
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74070-6 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Problems
- Vast distances, long travel time, weak signals
- Billions of stars in our galaxy-where to look?
- Expectations of why anyone would contact us
- Drakes Equation in detail results in low probability
- How big is big?
- Noise and limitations on sensitivity
- Part II. Programs
- The history of SETI
- RF SETI
- Specific RF programs
- Failed efforts
- Enlistment of millions of PCs
- Optical SETI Beginnings
- Value of short pulses and early efforts
- Harvard All-sky dedicated system
- Part III. Possibilities
- Photon Star Project
- Moon station and Space Receivers
- IR and UV systems
- Information in the pulse train
- Sending pictures with pulses
- Future of SETI.