A candidate signal for SETI is a welcome sign that our efforts in that direction may one day pay off. An international team of researchers has announced the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595” in a document now being circulated through contact person Alexander Panov. The detection was made with the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, in the Karachay–Cherkess Republic of Russia, not far from the border with Georgia in the Caucasus.The signal was received on May 15, 2015, 18:01:15.65 (sidereal time), at a wavelength of 2.7 cm. The estimated amplitude of the signal is 750 mJy.
Here I’m drawing on a presentation forwarded to me by Claudio Maccone, from which I learn that the team behind the detection was led by N.N. Bursov and included L.N. Filippova, V.V. Filippov, L.M. Gindilis, A.D. Panov, E.S. Starikov, J. Wilson, as well as Claudio Maccone himself, the latter a familiar figure on Centauri Dreams. The work is to be discussed at a meeting of the IAA SETI Permanent Committee, to be held during the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016,
It comes from a system 95 light years distant with at least one known exoplanet and a star not so dissimilar to the Sun in metallicity but older with an estimated age of 6.3 billion years.QuoteA candidate signal for SETI is a welcome sign that our efforts in that direction may one day pay off. An international team of researchers has announced the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595” in a document now being circulated through contact person Alexander Panov. The detection was made with the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, in the Karachay–Cherkess Republic of Russia, not far from the border with Georgia in the Caucasus.The signal was received on May 15, 2015, 18:01:15.65 (sidereal time), at a wavelength of 2.7 cm. The estimated amplitude of the signal is 750 mJy.QuoteHere I’m drawing on a presentation forwarded to me by Claudio Maccone, from which I learn that the team behind the detection was led by N.N. Bursov and included L.N. Filippova, V.V. Filippov, L.M. Gindilis, A.D. Panov, E.S. Starikov, J. Wilson, as well as Claudio Maccone himself, the latter a familiar figure on Centauri Dreams. The work is to be discussed at a meeting of the IAA SETI Permanent Committee, to be held during the 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Tuesday, September 27th, 2016,http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248Huh - during the same conference that Elon is laying out his Mars architecture. Wow, the IAC is getting better and better...
Note the comment by Jean Schneider (a co-author on the original paper and editor of the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia) on the CD article: better don't get your hopes up too much - might well be gravitational lensing of a background source by the star in question. But certainly worth monitoring for a time.
"Baffling" "signal" "from HD 164595" is probably none of the above.http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&id=80193
Quote"Baffling" "signal" "from HD 164595" is probably none of the above.http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&id=80193
I think it's a sensible and healthy attitude. Too many false positives and hopes raised for nothing would ultimately degrade the work of the scientists on this search and make funding harder to come by. Better to say: "We have an anomaly and we're going through the possible causes one by one - an intelligent signal is the last one on the list." That way, you're not leaving yourself open to being accused of being a moonbat or worse by the sensationalist press and not giving the more... excitable on-line commentators too much fuel.
Quote from: ugordan on 08/29/2016 07:58 pmQuote"Baffling" "signal" "from HD 164595" is probably none of the above.http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&id=80193Harsh....
I wouldn't put it in the same category as the Wow! signal. The Wow! signal was narrow band, and because of that, more likely to indicate intelligence than this event.
SETI is the opposite of careful and responsible PR.There's always a disclaimer, but the tone is always leading the casual reader to false excitement.Seems to be working for them, but nothing to see here, as always.
Quote from: meekGee on 08/30/2016 05:50 pmSETI is the opposite of careful and responsible PR.There's always a disclaimer, but the tone is always leading the casual reader to false excitement.Seems to be working for them, but nothing to see here, as always.Totally unlike the water-on-Mars stories or discoveries of the next Earth 2.0 exoplanet, but promise, this time it's real!It's not as if the media is blameless when it comes to blowing something out of proportion. Which brings me to my questions:1) When exactly was the last SETI signal claim, which you seem to imply happen so often?2) Would this even be picked up by anyone if it wasn't originally mentioned on Centauri Dreams? It's not as if this claim was sent to all media outlets in the world.Another analogy, rumors about LHC discoveries of new particles, the latest being the infamous 750 GeV resonance which was picked up by many media as well. How very careless and irresponsible of CERN to allow such a thing to happen...