SETI@home II - Piggyback Observations at Parkes?
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SETI@home has been observing continuously at Arecibo for the
last 15 months, carrying out a SETI sky survey with a dedicated
21 cm feed, simultaneous with ongoing observations.
In 2001 and 2002 we'd like to extend the SETI@home sky survey to the
southern hemisphere by collecting data from Parkes, recording data
during multibeam HI and pulsar surveys.  Tapes would be sent to
Berkeley and then distributed via the Internet to roughly one
million SETI@home participants who analyze the data with a screen
saver program, searching for narrow-band continuous and pulsed signals.
The SETI@home data recorder would record a 2.5 MHz band from 13 beams
simultaneously utilizing ~4 DLT tape drives.  We'd likely tap data off
from Southern Serendip; we'd need space for a 19 inch equipment rack,
about 1 KW, and a telescope operator or someone who could change tapes
every 6 hours or so, and mail us a monthly package of tapes.
In all we'd record about 1000 tapes.  The survey is nicely orthogonal
to the current Southern Serendip sky survey:  SETI@home II would cover
a small band, centered at 1420 MHz, but with 10 times better sensitivity
and 15 octaves of frequency and time resolution.

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Dan Werthimer                 Space Sciences Laboratory
SETI@home chief scientist     Grizzly Peak Blvd. MS7450
SERENDIP  project director    University of Calfornia
	          	       Berkeley, CA 94720-7450
danw@ssl.berkeley.edu      phone:  510-642-6997
http://seti.berkeley.edu   fax:    510-643-2624
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