Multipurpose Spectrometer Instrumentation for SETI and Radio Astronomy

用于 SETI 和射电天文学的多用途光谱仪仪器

• 批准号: 0243040
• 负责人: Geoffrey Marcy
• 金额: $ 70.41万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0243040&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Multipurpose; Spectrometer; Instrumentation; SETI; Radio

This is a program to design and build a modular general-purpose spectrometer for SETI and radio astronomy applications. The instrument will mainly be used to conduct multibeam SETI and astronomical observations at NSF's Arecibo Observatory. The investigators are working closely with several radio astronomy groups who will use the instrument and/or its technology in other traditional radio astronomy applications. The spectrometer is a two billion channel instrument, dubbed "SERENDIP V". The SERENDIP V system includes new capabilities not found in any other instrument. SERENDIP V is designed to operate in conjunction with a seven-beam receiver system which will be installed at the Arecibo telescope in 2003. The SERENDIP V system will analyze signals from all beams simultaneously in dual polarization, effectively observing seven points on the sky simultaneously. This instrument will be used to perform SETI, HI, continuum polarization, and dispersed pulse surveys concurrently with a large-scale pulsar survey of the galactic plane that is to be performed using the multibeam receiver.

这是一个为SETI和射电天文学应用设计和建造模块化通用光谱仪的程序。该仪器将主要用于在NSF的阿雷西博天文台进行多波束SETI和天文观测。研究人员正在与几个射电天文学小组密切合作，这些小组将在其他传统射电天文学应用中使用该仪器和/或其技术。这台光谱仪是一台20亿通道的仪器，名为“SERENDIP V”。SERENDIP V系统包括任何其他仪器所没有的新功能。Serendip V被设计成与一个将于2003年安装在阿雷西博望远镜上的七光束接收器系统一起运行。SERENDIP V系统将以双极化方式同时分析来自所有光束的信号，有效地同时观测天空中的七个点。该仪器将用于执行SETI、HI、连续偏振和色散脉冲测量，同时还将使用多波束接收器对银河系平面进行大规模脉冲星测量。