SETI public: Optical SETI with Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes

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Paper: astro-ph/0506758
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:19:16 GMT (97kb)

Title: Optical SETI with Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes

Authors: J. Holder, P. Ashworth, S. LeBohec, H.J. Rose, T.C. Weekes
Comments: 4 pages. Submitted to the 29th ICRC, Pune
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  The idea of searching for optical signals from extraterrestrial
civilizations
has become increasingly popular over the last five years, with dedicated
projects at a number of observatories. The method relies on the detection of
a
brief (few ns), intense light pulse with fast photon detectors. Ground-based
gamma-ray telescopes such as the Whipple 10m, providing a large mirror area
and
equipped with an array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), are ideal
instruments
for this kind of observation if the background of cosmic-ray events can be
rejected. We report here on a method for searching for optical SETI pulses,
using background discrimination techniques based on the image shape.

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