SETI@home: Project Goals

• Science:
  • increased sensitivity and generality in a SETI sky survey
    
  • 2MHz band centered at 1420.4 MHz
    
  • 0.1Hz to 1KHz resolution (1ms - 10 sec pulse duration)
    
  • coherent integration: -5 to 5 Hz/sec drift rates
    
  
  
• Education/awareness:
  
  • involve the public in SETI, science
  • classroom uses
  
  
• Computer technology:
  
  • first significant Internet-wide distributed computation

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