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SETI 告一段落了<p><br>This is an exciting time for SETI@home.<br>On March 18-20 2003 we travel to the Arecibo radio telescope<br>to re-observe the most promising &quot;candidates&quot; produced by our search so far.<br>There is a chance that these new observations will yield<br>the first real evidence of extraterrestrial life.<br>Thanks for being part of this history-making effort!<br>According to our records, you have processed 383 work units,<br>the most recent on March 14, 2003.<br>Your contribution of computer time to SETI@home is greatly appreciated.<p><br>Support SETI@home - Join The Planetary Society<br>----------------------------------------------<br>Without the unwavering support of The Planetary Society,<br>we would not be embarking on this round of re-observations.<br>We strongly urge all SETI@home users to join The Planetary Society<br>and help keep our project alive. &nbsp;If you join now, you'll receive a<br>free poster titled &quot;Is Anybody Out There?&quot; featuring an evocative<br>image of the millions of stars near the center of our galaxy. &nbsp;Go to:<br>http://planetary.org/html/member/SETIoffer.html<p>The Planetary Society supports several different searches for<br>extraterrestrial intelligence, as well as extra-solar planet research<br>and many other worthwhile projects. &nbsp;For a look at the full range of<br>their activities, visit http://planetary.org<p>Thanks also to our other major sponsors: the University of California,<br>Sun Microsystems, Network Appliance, Fujifilm Computer Products, and Quantum&#59;<br>and to individuals around the world who have generously donated to SETI@home:<br>see http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/donor.html<p><br>Scientific News<br>---------------<br>With the help of participants like you, SETI@home has analyzed<br>about 10,000 hours of data from the Arecibo radio observatory,<br>producing a database of several billion events<br>(spikes, Gaussians, pulses, and triplets).<br>From this database, we have extracted the &quot;candidates&quot; that,<br>in our judgement, have the greatest likelihood<br>of coming from an extraterrestrial synthetic source.<br>The factors in this evaluation include:<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;- Signal power<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;- Goodness of fit<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;- Detection several different times<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;- Proximity to a nearby star, especially one similar to our Sun.<br>Our next step is to re-observe the top candidates<br>by pointing a radio telescope at that location in the sky<br>and checking for a similar signal.<br>We applied for telescope time at Arecibo and were granted 24 hours,<br>in three 8-hour chunks on March 18-20, 2003.<br>If everything goes well, this will be enough time to re-observe<br>about 150 candidates.<p>The re-observations will be done using the main receiver at Arecibo,<br>which has a smaller beam and greater sensitivity than<br>the antenna we normally use.<br>We'll record the re-observations on magnetic tape,<br>both in our usual format of 2 bits per sample,<br>and in a higher-resolution format with 8 bits per sample.<br>Then we'll analyze the recorded data in three ways:<p>- We'll do a fast analysis using computers at Arecibo&#59;<br>this will guide us in choosing candidates on which to spend more time.<p>- We'll analyze the 2-bit data using the current SETI@home client&#59;<br>this will take place during the week or two after the Arecibo visit.<p>- We'll analyze the 8-bit data using a new client program<br>based on BOINC (see below), yielding better sensitivity.<br>This will take place a month or two after the Arecibo visit.<p>More information on the re-observation project is here:<br>http://planetary.org/stellarcountdown/<p><br>Project News<br>------------<br>The re-observation is just one of the things keeping us busy.<br>We have built a new data recorder capable of handling<br>the 13-channel multibeam receiver at Parkes in Australia.<br>This will produce data for our new &quot;Southern SETI@home&quot; project,<br>which we hope to start later this year if we can raise the necessary funds.<br>In addition, we are preparing a new distributed computing project,<br>Astropulse, that will analyze our current SETI@home data,<br>looking for evidence of evaporating black holes,<br>fast pulsars, and new types of ET signals.<br>See http://www.planetary.org/astropulses.html<p>Our upcoming distributed computing projects will use the<br>Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC),<br>which we are developing with support from the National Science Foundation.<br>See http://boinc.berkeley.edu.<br>BOINC will also be used by science research projects in other areas,<br>such as molecular biology and climate prediction.<br>BOINC lets you choose how much computer time to devote to each project.<br>The transition from SETI@home to BOINC will be gradual.<br>We'll continue to record new data at Arecibo even while BOINC ramps up&#59;<br>for now you can help us most by continuing to run SETI@home.<p>Whether or not the re-observations find an ET signal,<br>SETI@home has been a tremendous success and a lot of fun.<br>We are very grateful for the participation and enthusiasm<br>of our users all over the world,<br>and we look forward to continuing working together<br>to investigate the mysteries of the universe.<p><br>Dr. David P. Anderson<br>Project Director, SETI@home<br>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu<p>----------------------------------------------------<p>
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