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Chakat Firepaw

@ReverendMoose @futurebird
It's a tradeoff: A smaller area covered but a higher chance of anyone there paying attention. It also gives you a focus for part of your future searching, (e.g. you actively watch each system for a decade after an immediate response could be arriving).

11 February at 15:51 | Wall-to-wall | Open on universeodon.com
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Michael Busch

@chakatfirepaw @ReverendMoose @futurebird Seth was describing a search pattern currently being used by the Allen Telescope Array; which is detailed in this paper from last year: iopscience.iop.org/article/10. .

The "piggybacking" term here has a double meaning. It also refers to searching through radio astronomy observations of unusual natural sources to look for any potential artificial ones.

So the array is doing good science, even if it has not found aliens.

11 February at 19:17 | Open on mastodon.online
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