Serendip IV - SETI post processing pipeline
Abstract
New technologies under development aim to the realization of more sensitive and performing instruments. Designs of future radio telescope like SKA and back ends, will allow us to deepen our radio-signals analysis, increasing the probability to detect a signal emitted by Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI). This means a huge amount of data to analyze and compute. The processing will be possible only in automatic mode, exploiting the computing power of future computers and a proper algorithm to perform the detection of "the type of signal we think it will be possible to receive".
It is reported the experience gained at the Medicina radio telescope by using the Italian Serendip-IV (SIV) module and the development of all the software needed to perform off-line, all the post processing operations necessary to detect the possible ETI candidate signal. An interesting algorithm based on Hough transform, has been used for data post processing, a collection of ad hoc procedures written for ET signals detection from the experience managed by our Institute after the installation of the multi-channel spectrum analyzer Serendip IV, is described inside this article.- Publication:
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Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana
- Pub Date:
- 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018MmSAI..89..342M
- Keywords:
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- Serendip IV;
- SETI;
- Medicina