{"id":29637,"date":"2017-12-13T07:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=29637"},"modified":"2017-12-13T07:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:40:42","slug":"listening-to-oumuamua-via-the-green-bank-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/listening-to-oumuamua-via-the-green-bank-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to Oumuamua via the Green Bank Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Ferruccio Manfieri, who writes:<\/p>\n

I bother you to mention this uncommon radio listening project i’ve just found via The Guardian:<\/a><\/p>\n

Green Bank telescope in West Virginia will listen for radio signals from \u2018Oumuamua, an object from another solar system<\/strong><\/p>\n

Astronomers are to use one of the world\u2019s largest telescopes to check a mysterious object that is speeding through the solar system for signs of alien technology.<\/p>\n

The Green Bank telescope in West Virginia will listen for radio signals being broadcast from a cigar-shaped body which was first spotted in the solar system in October. The body arrived from interstellar space and reached a peak speed of 196,000 mph as it swept past the sun.<\/p>\n

Scientists on the Breakthrough Listen project, which searches for evidence of alien civilisations, said the Green Bank telescope would monitor the object, named \u2018Oumuamua, from Wednesday. The first phase of observations is expected to last 10 hours and will tune in to four different radio transmission bands.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost likely it is of natural origin, but because it is so peculiar, we would like to check if it has any sign of artificial origin, such as radio emissions,\u201d said Avi Loeb, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and an adviser to the Breakthrough Listen project. \u201cIf we do detect a signal that appears artificial in origin, we\u2019ll know immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

The linked article says that “(…)Scientists on the Breakthrough Listen project, which searches for evidence of alien civilisations, said the Green Bank telescope would monitor the object, named \u2018Oumuamua, from Wednesday. The first phase of observations is expected to last 10 hours and will tune in to four different radio transmission bands.”<\/p>\n

From the website of the project (http:\/\/breakthroughinitiatives.org\/initiative\/1<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Breakthrough Listen is the largest ever scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth. The scope and power of the search are on an unprecedented scale:<\/p>\n

The program includes a survey of the 1,000,000 closest stars to Earth. It scans the center of our galaxy and the entire galactic plane. Beyond the Milky Way, it listens for messages from the 100 closest galaxies to ours.<\/p>\n

The instruments used are among the world\u2019s most powerful. They are 50 times more sensitive than existing telescopes dedicated to the search for intelligence.
\nThe radio surveys cover 10 times more of the sky than previous programs. They also cover at least 5 times more of the radio spectrum \u2013 and do it 100 times faster. They are sensitive enough to hear a common aircraft radar transmitting to us from any of the 1000 nearest stars.<\/p>\n

In particular:<\/p>\n

“Listen\u2019s observation campaign will begin on Wednesday, December 13 at 3:00 pm ET. Using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, it will continue to observe \u2018Oumuamua across four radio bands, from 1 to 12 GHz. Its first phase of observations will last a total of 10 hours, divided into four \u201cepochs\u201d based on the object\u2019s period of rotation.”<\/p>\n

I know it’s out of our common shortwave range and scope of interest, but as a radio listening enthusiast I’m fascinated by this visionary scientific enterprise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you,\u00a0Ferruccio, for sharing this.\u00a0 Being a fan of radio astronomy, SETI, and weak signal DXing, of course I find this fascinating<\/em>!\u00a0 Thanks for sharing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ferruccio Manfieri, who writes: I bother you to mention this uncommon radio listening project i’ve just found via The Guardian: Green Bank telescope in West Virginia will listen for radio signals from \u2018Oumuamua, an object from another solar system Astronomers are to use one of the world\u2019s largest telescopes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6697,584,3843,581,6481],"class_list":["post-29637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ferruccio-manfieri","tag-green-bank-telescope","tag-national-radio-astronomy-obeservatory","tag-radio-astronomy","tag-seti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7I1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11102,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/living-in-a-national-radio-quiet-zone\/","url_meta":{"origin":29637,"position":0},"title":"Living in a National Radio Quiet Zone","author":"Thomas","date":"October 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul, who shares this National Geographic video about Green Bank, West Virginia, USA--home of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO): My wife and I took a camping trip to\u00a0Green Bank in the late 1990s when the massive Green Bank Telescope was about 80% complete.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Green Bank Telescope: An impressive parabolic dish covering 2.3 acres, the GBT has the largest collecting area of any fully-steerable telescope in the world. 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