A new radio telescope array has been developed by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute and the University of California at Berkeley that will shed some cosmic noise, and give scientists a better view of one million stars scattered throughout the universe.
A new radio telescope array has been developed by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute and the University of California at Berkeley that will shed some cosmic noise, and give scientists a better view of one million stars scattered throughout the universe.
Named after the principle initial donor of the project, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) consists of 350 20-foot antennas and will allow SETI scientists and radio astronomers to study stars twenty-four hours a day across multiple channels.
This new array -- which gathers smaller telescopes in large bunches -- will allow scientists to study more stars at one time than was previously possible with larger telescopes that focused on one, narrow region of space at any given time.
The Allen Foundation has already laid out $11.5 million, with the promise of another $13.5 million in the future. While that covers less than half of the $52 million price tag, the project is still under way. There are currently 32 antennas running in the Hat Creek region of Northern California and SETI hopes to have construction of the total array finished by 2007.
It gives us access to the sky to search deeper for fainter levels and broader types of signals, says SETI director Jill Tarter. Well be looking at more frequency with more sensitivity and sophistication.
The ATA's development comes on the heels of the news that NASA's most well-known telescope, Hubble, will be brought down in the near future due to budget constraints and resource reallocations that have forced the space agency to examine where it should spend its money.
Story continues below
That has turned attention back to earth-bound telescopes. Although SETI has only been around since1984, scientists have been using radio telescopes to learn more about the heavens since the 1940s.
Radio telescopes are comprised of three components. The most visible is the parabolic dish (called an antenna) that collects the faint radio signals from the cosmos. The next is a type of recording device -- nowadays, a digital memory disc -- and complex software used to collect, analyze and process the data.
E-mail
Print
Favorite
Share »
Digg this
Add to del.icio.us
Add to Reddit
Add to Facebook
Slashdot It!
Stumble It!
Add to Newsvine
Add to Connotea
Add to CiteUlike
Add to Furl
Googlize this
Add to Rojo
Add to MyWeb
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comments
Please see the paper about UFO,s materials.
Thank you.Sincerely,Henadzi Filipenka,teacher of
materials. hfilipenk@rambler.ru
--------------------
Dear Sirs!The information, contained in the project is
in my
opinion
the evidence of its extraterrestrial origin.
Project
of decoding of 'The Stormer Effect'
The phenomenon is described by C.Stormer in his
work 'The
Problem of Aurora Borealis' in the chapter
entitled 'The
Echo of Short Waves, Which Comes Back in Many Seconds
After
The Main Signal'.
In 1928 the radio- engineer Jorgen Hals from Bigder
near Oslo
informed C.Stormer about an odd radio echo received 3
seconds after the cessation of the main signal;
besides, an
ordinary echo encircling the Earth within 1/7 of a
second
was received.
In July Prof. Stormer spoke to Dr. Van-der-Paul in
Andhoven
and they decided to carry out experiments in autumn
and send
telegraphic signals in the form of undamped waves
every 20
seconds three dashes one after the other. On 11
October 1928
between 15.30 and 16.00, C.Stormer heard an
echo 'beyond any
doubt'; the signals lasted for 1,5- 2 seconds on
undamped
waves 31,4 meters long.
Stormer and Hals recorded the intervals between the
main
signal and the mysterious echo:
1) 15, 9, 4, 8, 13, 8, 12, 10, 9, 5, 8, 7, 6
2) 12, 14, 14, 12, 8
3) 12, 5, 8
4) 12, 8, 5, 14, 14, 15, 12, 7, 5.5, 13, 8, 8, 8, 13,
9,10,7,14,6,9,5
5) 9
Atmospheric disturbances were insignificant at that
time.
The frequency of echoes was equal to that of the main
signal. C.Stormer explained the nature of echoes by
reflection of radio waves from layers of particles
ionised
by the Sun. But!
The Professor of the Stenford Electrotechnical
University
R.Bracewell suggested possibility of informational
communication through space probes between more or less
developed civilisations in space. From that point of
view
the information about decoding of Stormer series can be
found in following journals:
'Smena' No.2 Moscow 1966 , 'Astronautics and
Aeronautics'
No.5 USA 1973, 'Technika Molodezi' No.4 1974 and No.5
1977
Moscow, etc.
The author of this work offers the following decoding:
let
the numbers in the series be replaced for chemical
symbols
of elements with corresponding nuclear charges:
1) P F Be O Al O Mg Ne F B O N C
2) Mg Si Si Mg O
3) Mg B O
4) Mg O B Si Si P Mg N B B Al O O O Al F Ne N Si C F B
5) F
It is easy to see that the second series is repeated
at the
beginning of the forth series with the only difference
that
in the forth series silicon is alloyed with boron and
phosphorus, i.e. 'p-n transition' of a diode is
created. The
third series describes receipt of pure boron through
action
on boron anhydrite by magnesium:
B2O3 and Mg = B ...
The author of the above hypothesis wrote his degree
paper on
silicon carbide light-emitting diode, that is why the
ending of the forth series is the most simple- it is a
modern light-emitting diode. Silicon carbide is
alloyed with
nitrogen and boron with 'some participation' of
fluorine.
Approximately the same way diamond is alloyed with
participation of fluorine in laboratories of 'other
civilisations', as can be seen at the ending of the
first
series. In the middle of the forth series corundum,
the base
of ruby, is also alloyed with boron, nitrogen and
fluorine.
In the fifth series simply fluorine is educed as a
useful
but very aggressive gas. Inert neon seems to divide
optoelectronic devices.
In conclusion, some repeated applications should be
noticed:
fluorine favours in a way either diffusion of boron or
electronic processes in forbidden zones of diamond,
silicon
carbamide; for some reason magnesium contacts are used.
Now,MgB2 is supercoductor!!! (2001?)
===================================================
======
In 1928 semi-conductor devices were not in use on
Earth.
It was made in Leningrad,1978.
P.S.This paper is placed in Internet from 1998,please
see at:
http://www.belarus.net/discovery/filipenko/fil2.htm
(in English)
===================================================
==
Superconductivity in diamond, Nature, 428, 542 (2004)
Origin of Superconductivity in Boron-doped Diamond.
===================================================
=====
All this discoveries are placed in series of C.Stormer!
http://home.ural.ru/~filip
Sincerely, Henadzi Filipenka,6a-7 Boldina str.Grodno
230030
Belarus
P.S.Superconductivity in doped cubic silicon
E. Bustarret1,7, C. Marcenat3,7, P. Achatz1,3, J. Kamarik1,4, F. L?vy3, A.
Huxley3,8, L. Ort?ga2, E. Bourgeois5, X. Blase5, D. D?barre6 and J.
Boulmer6
Laboratoire d'Etudes des Propri?t?s Electroniques des Solides,
Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CNRS, BP166, 38042 Grenoble, France
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/...ature0
5340.html
2006.
hfilipenk
03/13/2007
Posts:1