A search for interstellar communications at optical wavelengths

Details A search for interstellar communications at optical wavelengths A search for interstellar communications at optical wavelengths

Oct 2002

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Thesis (PhD). HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Source DAI-B 63/04, p. 1889, Oct 2002, 84 pages.

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The Harvard-Smithsonian optical SETI project, is a search for intentional transmissions from intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. A plausible scenario for these transmissions is developed which concludes that they could consist of very short pulses of visible light. The search targets stars similar to our own Sun (F, G and K type dwarves) nearby in our galaxy. A group at Princeton with whom we are collaborating has started simultaneously observing the same stars; this has reduced the number of background events to zero. 8,206 stars have been observed at Harvard and 1,088 at Princeton; so far no events been seen which present the assumed characteristics of an extraterrestrial intelligent origin.

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