 OTHER
SETI-RELATED SITES:
ARE
HUMANS ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE? SEARCH FOR ET (COOL
JAPANESE SITE IN ENGLISH FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES)
ARCTURUS
PROJECT, THE (MESSAGES)
Astrobiology
at NASA - NASA's
astrobiology page.
ASTROBIOLOGY
MAGAZINE
Communicating
with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (MESSAGES)
Contact
Project, The (MESSAGES)
Cornell
University related SETI
DARWIN
Space Interferometer -
site is for a proposed European Space Agency
mission giving you extra-solar planet info.
Donuts
and Dyson Swarms
Dyson
Sphere's on Wikipedia
Extrasolar
Planets Encyclopaedia -
possibly the most comprehensive site regarding
already discovered planets.
Invitation
to ETI -
Scientists invite extraterrestrials to
communicate via the internet.
Megascale
Projects (MORE
DYSON-esque)
More
on Dyson Swarms
NASA's
SETI History Page -
NASA reminisces its old SETI projects (pre-congressional
cuts.)
Planetary
Society' SETI Page, The -
Probably the most important SETI supporting
organization on Earth.
Planetary
Systems - This not-for-profit
has Frank Drake on its board of Directors and has
a neat Drake Equation Calculator.
PlanetQuest
- The Search for Another Earth -
JPL website covering the search, which also has
the New
World's Atlas.
Project
Bambi - Amateur SETI
search by radio enthusiasts
SETI
Endeavor -
Public, viewable discussion threads of the SETI
League.
SETI
Messages From Earth
S.E.T.I.
Research and Community Development Institute -
Australian-based SETI.
SKA
Project - Netherlander
Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project, a large-scale
radio-telescope array in the design phase.
Sky
and Telescope Magazine's SETI Page -
a well-balanced, in-depth and well-informed
overview of SETI.
Solar
System SETI Using Radio Telescope Arrays (Good
Doppler Figures!)
Space
Interferometry Mission (SIM) -
NASA's planned mission to launch the first
spacecraft that should be sensitive enough to
"allow SIM to determine the distances to
stars throughout the galaxy and to probe nearby
stars for Earth-sized planets." Planned for
launch ~ 2007.
space.com's
SETI: Search For Life Page
Terrestrial
Planet Finder (TPF) -
Building on the technology tested by SIM (above)
NASA's proposed TPF is an even more ambitious
mission to launch five spacecraft to fly in
formation, with four of them carrying telescopes
to combine the light of a star system into one
image, while simultaneously nulling out the
bright parent star to detect Earth-like planets
and determine what their atmosphere is composed
of (which may betray the presence of life).
Twinkling
Transmitters and a List of Locations of Potential
Extraterrestrial Transmitters by
Dr. T. Joseph W. Lazio (professional radio-astronomer)
which includes important work on scintillation of
radio waves through the galactic medium and his
pulsar work.
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SETI-related Scientific
Papers
(by others, in alphabetical
order):
An Astrophysical
Explanation for the Great Silence ('99) - James Annis
A Possible Aeronomy
of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets ('02) - W. A. Traub,K. W.
Jucks
Campbelltown
Rotary Observatory OSETI Paper
Captain Cook, the
Terrestrial Planet Finder and the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence Authors: Charles Beichman
Comments: Bioastronomy 2002, IAU Symposium 213,
in press
Chances for earth-like
planets and life around metal-poor stars Authors: Hans Zinnecker
Comments: 5 pages, IAU Symp. 213, ed. R. Norris,
C. Oliver, F. Stootman, in press
Characterizing
Earth-like Planets with Terrestrial Planet Finder Authors: S. Seager (DTM/CIW),
E.B. Ford, E.L. Turner (Princeton) Comments: SPIE
Proceedings, Future Research Direction and
Visions for Astronomy, 8 pages, pdf only
Constraints in the
coupling Star-Life ('01) - L. Sertorio, G.
Tinetti
Cosmic Intelligence
and Black Holes ('00) - Vladimir A. Lefebvre, Yuri
N. Efremov
Cosmic Irony: SETI
Optimism from Catastrophes? ('03)
Authors: Milan M. Cirkovic
Cosmic
Thermobiology: Thermal Constraints on the Origin
and Evolution of Life in the Universe Authors: Charles H.
Lineweaver (1), David Schwartzman (2) ((1) School
of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia, (2) Department of Biology, Howard
University, Washington DC, USA) Comments: 14
pages, 4 figures (one in color). Paper to be
published in a monograph "Origins" edt.
J. Seckbach, 2003, Kluwer Academic
Could We Detect
Molecular Oxygen in the Atmosphere of a
Transiting Extra-Solar Earth-Like Planet? ('01) - John K. Webb, Imma
Wormleaton
Defining
Civilization utilizing Anthropic Reasoning. Author
Kevin A. Pimbblet, 3 pages
Does the rapid
appearance of life on Earth suggest that life is
common in the Universe? ('02) - Charles H.
Lineweaver, Tamara M. Davis,
Eternal inflation,
black holes, and the future of civilizations ('99)- J. Garriga, V. F.
Mukhanov, K. D. Olum, A. Vilenkin
Extra-Solar Planets ('00) M. A. C.
Perryman
Five
Years of Project META - an all-sky narrow-band
radio search for extraterrestrial signals ('93) Paul
Horowitz and Carl Sagan
Forecast for the
Next Eon: Applied Cosmology and the Long-Term
Fate of Intelligent Beings Authors: Milan M. Cirkovic
Comments: 18 pages, expanded and modified version
of the paper published in "Journal of
Evolution and Technology" (this http URL),
vol. 12 (2002)
Gamma Ray Bursts
and CETI ('93) - Frank D. (Tony) Smith Jr
Gamma
Ray Bursts as Synchronizers - A site
created by Robin H. D. Corbet which includes
excellent references.
How bio-friendly is
the universe?, by Paul Davies. The paper posits 'biological
determinism' as a factor in biogenesis, "transpermia"
versus "panspermia" and that "...the
key property of life is its information content,
and speculate that the emergence of the requisite
information-processing machinery might require
quantum information theory for a satisfactory
explanation."
How Rare Are
Extraterrestrial Civilizations and When Did They
Emerge? ('98)- Mario Livio
Life Extinction Due
To Neutron Star Mergers ('96) - Arnon Dar, Ari
Laor, Nir J. Shaviv
Limits from CGRO/EGRET
Data on the Use of Antimatter as a Power Source
by Extraterrestrial Civilizations ('01) - Michael J. Harris
Megachannel
Extraterrestrial Assay Candidates: No
Transmissions from Intrinsically Steady Sources ('02) - T. Joseph W. Lazio,
Jill Tarter Peter R. Backus
Microlensing and
the Search for Extraterrestrial Life ('98) - Rosanne Di Stefano
On the Non-observability
of Recent Biogenesis Authors: Charles H.
Lineweaver, Tamara M. Davis (School of Physics,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Comments: 3 pages, no figures, in press at "Astrobiology",
Vol 3, 2003 Reply to a comment on our previous
paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205014
Optical SETI: A
Spectroscopic Search for Laser Emission from
Nearby Stars ('01) - Amy E. Reines & Geoffrey
W. Marcy
Optical SETI with
Air Cerenkov Telescopes ('01) - David Eichler,
Gregory Beskin
NEW Physics
of Atmospheric Luminous Anomalies A Sieve for
SETI In the paper they seem to have used
an impressive arsenal of detectors to investigate
the nature of 'ball lightning' as being an
atmospheric plasma event, with interesting
outcomes, and attempt to argue the usefulness of
these types of investigations for examining
possible visitations by exogenous probes; indeed
they state that a pilot SETV project is already
underway.
Scintillation-Induced
Intermittency in SETI ('97) - James M. Cordes, T.
Joseph W. Lazio, Carl Sagan
Searching for
extragalactic planets ('99) - Edward A. Baltz,
Paolo Gondolo
NEW Seti
with Ska Author: Alan J. Penny (Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory)
Some Uses of
Neutrino Telescopes ('01) - Sandip Pakvasa
Strategies for the
search of life in the universe ('96) - Jean Schneider
The evolution of
habitable zones during stellar lifetimes and its
implications on the search for extraterrestrial
life Authors: David R. Underwood, Barrie
W. Jones, P. Nick Sleep , Accepted by the
International Journal of Astrobiology.
The Future of Radio
Astronomy: Options for Dealing with Human
Generated Interference ('00) - R D Ekers, J F
Bell
The Temporal Aspect
of the Drake Equation and SETI Author - Milan M. Cirkovic,
8 pages
The
Use of Gamma-ray Bursts as Direction and Time
Markers in SETI Strategies ('99) or
The
Use of Gamma-Ray Bursts as Time and Direction
Markers in SETI Strategies -Robin H.D. Corbet
Time is Life ('00)-
Domingos S.L. Soares
Other Papers:
The
following are some papers that might be
interesting to SETI researchers:
SETHI@Berkeley- A
Piggyback 21-cm Sky Survey at Arecibo ('01) - Eric J. Korpela,
Paul Demorest, Eric Heien, Carl Heiles, Dan
Werthimer
Magnetically-Driven
Planetary Radio Emissions and Application to
Extrasolar Planets ('01)
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I
have just become a presenter for the NASA Night
Sky Network where members of numerous astronomy
clubs get materials to present to the public. One
of the fantastic items that they had is 12
monthly all-sky star maps (as seen from 35 deg.
North latitude) which show the positions of
easily found extra-solar planet parent stars
which are titled Where are the Distant Worlds?
Check them out (copies for educational purposes
are permitted) at http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/docs/07DistWorldsStarMaps.pdf
STUFF
I'VE WORKED ON:
Citizen
of the Cosmos Seeks Intervention (July, '04)
Extra-Solar Planet Sky
Positions (RA/DEC) Visible from Arecibo (July, '03)
SETI@home Top-Candidate
Work Units Re-observations Spring '03 Table I (>2 Megs, '03)
SETI@homeTop-Candidate
Work Units Re-observations Spring '03 Table II (>1 Meg, '03)
"Are
There Extra- Ordinary Objects Near Extra-solar
Planets?" (Fall
'02)
Sky Positions (RA/DEC)
of Top 14 SETI@home Triple-seen Candidates ( April, '02)
SETI
candidates at Saturn within Harvard & SETI@home
projects ('02)
Weak
Interstellar
Messages Pass
us bY
SETI Project & Table of SETI Frequencies
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Jason's
SETI To-do List:
Bug-Eye 12
gigahertz multi-dish wide-angle radio sky viewer
feasibility study - to see if using
multiple 2-3 degree wide 12 gigahertz satellite
dishes would be useful.
Central
SETI Target Master Catalog - identify
known studied SETI candidates by different
researchers into a central archive.
Optical
Satellite Identification/matching - I've
seen a satellite suddenly slow down, reverse
direction, and then stop. I heard another person
report the same thing for a different location at
a different time on a radio talk show. Is this
possible for a satellite with known technology
without burning all its reaction thruster fuel? I
have found a similar account online. I must set
aside observing time t next astronomy club dark
sky outing
Earth
Shadow Optical Telescope Experiment - Look
in Earth's shadow for optical flashes from ET
civilizations.
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Jason's
Favorite Tools
SPECTRAN
- free software for analyzing radio signals
SETI
Range Calculator
NASA's
SKYVIEW Advanced Form
Aladin
Previewer
SIMBAD
Astronomical Object Coordinate Identifier
AstroWeb
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