With a new capital injection may be the Seti project the search for traces of extraterrestrial life. With the money the Allen Telecope Array to be used; the telescopes are on of recently discovered solar systems-oriented.
Earlier this year, Seti’s search for traces of extraterrestrial life discontinued. The project, with radio telescopes search for non-natural sources of radiation that might by intelligent life have been produced, had no more money to the quest to continue. A capital injection, made possible by the project SetiStars and contributed to by individuals, the organization, however, able to get the Allen Telescope Array to use again.
In the next two years, the telescope system, consisting of 42 antennas, again be taken into use. Target of the ATA is listening to so-called exoplanets by the Kepler telescope discovered. That space telescope has solar systems with planets have been identified, making the search more focused than listening to random stars.
One of the more famous ‘Kepler-planets is a planet only 2.4 times the diameter of the earth. Kepler-22b, such as the exoplanet is called, turns around its sun in the so-called Goldilocks zone, a distance at which liquid water on the planets surface. Liquid water is necessary for life as we know it.
Seti will with the ATA in the coming two years to a broad sprectrum listen. The telescopes will be the 1GHz to 10GHz-band with a resolution of 1Hz to listen to. This band is normally very quiet; there are few natural sources produce radiation in this bandwidth, the chances should increase that signals in that scope come from extraterrestrial intelligence.
