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The 8-Million Channel Narrowband Analyzer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Paul Horowitz
Affiliation:
Harvard University
John Forster
Affiliation:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ivan Linscott
Affiliation:
Stanford University

Abstract

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An 8.4 million channel narrowband spectrum analyzer is nearing completion, and will be used to expand the frequency coverage of the ongoing search at Oak Ridge by a factor of 200. The new system – project META – will cover 420kHz at 0.05Hz resolution, utilizing a swept receiver to cancel the effect of the earth's rotation. The increased bandwidth will permit observation of CW beacons transmitted at magic frequencies in any of three preferred frames: the local standard of rest, the galactic barycenter, and the cosmic blackbody rest frame.

Type
Section VI. Technological Progress in Radio Searches
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985