Exploring the Unknown with CASPER Instrumentation Andrew Siemion CASPER Workshop 2011

1. Exploring the Unknown with CASPER Instrumentation Andrew Siemion CASPER Workshop 2011

2. Kara Kundert Glen Langston Matt Lebofsky Arielle Little David MacMahon Ron Maddalena Geoff Marcy Peter McMahon Imke de Pater Zac Rzesniowiecki Laura Spitler Jill Tarter Josh Von Korff Mark Wagner Dan Werthimer Dave Anderson Marin Anderson Geoff Bower Jeff Cobb Jim Cordes Henry Chen Gregory Delory Paul Demorest Matt Dexter Terry Filiba John Ford Griffin Foster Abhimat Gautam Andrew Howard Eric Korpela

3. Kara Kundert Glen Langston Matt Lebofsky Arielle Little David MacMahon Ron Maddalena Geoff Marcy Peter McMahon Imke de Pater Zac Rzesniowiecki Laura Spitler Jill Tarter Josh Von Korff Mark Wagner Dan Werthimer Dave Anderson Marin Anderson Geoff Bower Jeff Cobb Jim Cordes Henry Chen Gregory Delory Paul Demorest Matt Dexter Terry Filiba John Ford Griffin Foster Abhimat Gautam Andrew Howard Eric Korpela Dan Werthimer

4. Kara Kundert Kara Kundert Glen Langston Matt Lebofsky Arielle Little David MacMahon Ron Maddalena Geoff Marcy Peter McMahon Imke de Pater Zac Rzesniowiecki Laura Spitler Jill Tarter Josh Von Korff Mark Wagner Dan Werthimer Dave Anderson Marin Anderson Geoff Bower Jeff Cobb Jim Cordes Henry Chen Gregory Delory Paul Demorest Matt Dexter Terry Filiba John Ford Griffin Foster Abhimat Gautam Andrew Howard Eric Korpela Marin Anderson Zac Rzesniowiecki Abhimat Gautam

5. The Allen Telescope Array Fly’s Eye Search for Fast Radio Transients

6. Siemion et al, “The Allen Telescope Array Fly’s Eye Search for Fast Radio Transients,” ApJ in press, arXiv:1109.2659

7. Kepler Field SETI

9. Graphic: Wendy Stenzel / NASA

11. Narrowband Emissions

12. Broadband Pulses e p e e p p e p p e e p e e p p p e

13. H2O O2 Galactic Synchrotron Background Ionospheric Reflection

14. Kepler SETI Band 16 to 27 cm 1.1 to 1.9 GHz

15. 18 cm hyperfine OH 21 cm hyperfine H “Water Hole”

16. Green Bank Ultimate Pulsar Machine (GUPPI) 8 bit sampling ➡ 2 bit quantization Raw ‘baseband’ recording 800 MHz bandwidth, 2 polarizations ~ 1 gigabyte/second to disk

17. Observations

18. Observations 5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs:

19. Observations 5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs: ‘Traditional’ HZ: -50 C < Teq< 100 C

20. Observations 5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs: ‘Traditional’ HZ: -50 C < Teq< 100 C Ncandidates > 4

21. Observations 5 minute targeted observation of especially interesting KOIs: ‘Traditional’ HZ: -50 C < Teq< 100 C Ncandidates > 4 Small, long period P > 50d && Rp < 3 RE

22. Observations 11 hour raster scan of the entire Kepler field. 5 seconds per 10’ beam Total Data set ~50 TB

23. Kepler Search Analysis Locally Performed Synthesized coarse filterbank Incoherent dispersed pulse search Synthesized high resolution spectrometer Incoherent Doppler drift search Abhimat Gautam, see Poster SETI@Home Astropulse

24. Sensitivity at 10σ: Broadband Pulses EIRP x 106 @ 1000 ly Narrowband Emission ~1650 ly SEFD = 10 Jy tintegration=150s tpulse=10s

25. The Allen Telescope Array Search for Electrostatic Discharge on Mars

26. The Allen Telescope Array Search for Electrostatic Discharge on Mars Ruf et al, GRL, 2009

29. Schumann Resonance

30. + Peter McMahon 2008

31. HiTREKS - High Time Resolution Kurtosis Spectrometer Peter McMahon 2008

32. Peter McMahon 2008

33. Marin Anderson et al, ApJ Submitted, 2011

34. Marin Anderson et al, ApJ Submitted, 2011

35. Super-Giant Crab Pulses

36. Super-Giant Crab Pulses Glenn Jones Main Pulse Inter Pulse R. Karuppusamy et al, 2010

37. Super-Giant Crab Pulses Main Pulse 400 MHz full Stokes ROACH Spectrometer Main Pulse Inter Pulse Inter Pulse 3.6m Leuschner Observatory Radio Telescope R. Karuppusamy et al, 2010 Zac Rzesniowiecki, see Poster

38. Super-Giant Crab Pulses Main Pulse 400 MHz full Stokes ROACH Spectrometer See Poster Main Pulse Questions? Inter Pulse Inter Pulse 3.6m Leuschner Observatory Radio Telescope R. Karuppusamy et al, 2010 Zac Rzesniowiecki, see Poster