Press Release - SETI League Member To Launch mm-Wave Search

Press release - SETI League Member To Launch mm-Wave Search

http://www.setileague.org/press/pres0607.htm


"Tucson, Arizona.., 7 October 2006 -- The latest in a series of SETI
searches looking for intelligent civilizations emitting signals in the
advanced millimeter wave radio band will take place on 1 - 2 November
2006 at the 12 meter Radio Observatory operated by the Steward
Observatory of the University of Arizona. This advanced radio telescope
is located on top of Kitt Peak, Sells, Arizona. The innovative SETI
search is led by Peter Panayiotis Vekinis of the SETI League, Inc., a
grass-roots, international non-profit educational and scientific
organization, and is partly funded by the Steward Observatory of the
University of Arizona's Radio Observatory, as well as by private funds.

Millimeter wave SETI is not new, but very few telescopes are available
for SETI searches in this wave band on Earth. Following ideas in
Vekinis' new book, GJ139 to be published early next year, his search
will concentrate on two stars, GJ139 and GJ71 both Sun-like and
relatively close to Earth. Millimeter waves are being used because it
is hypothesized that advanced civilizations will use advanced
frequencies, transmit on beacon frequencies already existing in the
universe, and synchronize their signals emitted with natural timing
sources such as pulsars.

The SETI search will be shown live (including whatever SETI signals are
received) on the web using a Quicktime Streaming Server from the
telescope site. More information on this search can be found at
http://vekinis.com/seti. The web streaming address will be available at
this server location as well.

The 12 meter telescope is available for use by others for SETI or Radio
Astronomy research. Contact Lucy Ziurys at..."
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Deeper, wider searching, Jason H.