Hi, This is one my favourite SETI talks, I've come back and watched it 4 times now. While still working to understand it all, I get the feeling that this will be a Great Machine!!
Just wow. This is so incredibly clever. I still have some of those SDSS plates somewhere. They did a good job for key candidates. 1% of 650 million is a lot of spectra, but this... The resolving power aspect to it..
The High Étendue Multiple Object Spectrographic Telescope (THE MOST) was selected by NIAC for continuation into Phase II in 2019. Is there any other work being done in this direction?
NIAC also underwrote a contemporaneous Phase I for the sister telescope, now called DUET (ADDEPT in this video), a space telescope that will explicitly target single exoplanetary systems to 1) take Doppler shift based spectra to determine radial velocities and 2) directly take spectra of individual exoplanets within our "neighborhood" of 10 parsecs. Another talk on the DUET Phase I research can be found on the streaming video from the 2019 NIAC Symposium. livestream.com/viewnow/NIAC2019/videos/196789856 1:17:30 The team now includes astronomers and optical physicists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who are devoting three lab spaces for the NIAC projects. If there is a broader engagement outside our effort, it has not come to my attention.
Hi, This is one my favourite SETI talks, I've come back and watched it 4 times now. While still working to understand it all, I get the feeling that this will be a Great Machine!!
Revolutionary, looks like.
great food for thought
Talk starts at 3:15
Has to be built. Well done
Just wow. This is so incredibly clever. I still have some of those SDSS plates somewhere. They did a good job for key candidates. 1% of 650 million is a lot of spectra, but this... The resolving power aspect to it..
The High Étendue Multiple Object Spectrographic Telescope (THE MOST) was selected by NIAC for continuation into Phase II in 2019.
Is there any other work being done in this direction?
NIAC also underwrote a contemporaneous Phase I for the sister telescope, now called DUET (ADDEPT in this video), a space telescope that will explicitly target single exoplanetary systems to 1) take Doppler shift based spectra to determine radial velocities and 2) directly take spectra of individual exoplanets within our "neighborhood" of 10 parsecs. Another talk on the DUET Phase I research can be found on the streaming video from the 2019 NIAC Symposium.
livestream.com/viewnow/NIAC2019/videos/196789856
1:17:30
The team now includes astronomers and optical physicists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who are devoting three lab spaces for the NIAC projects. If there is a broader engagement outside our effort, it has not come to my attention.