Regarding SETI@home Newsletter #13, one might guess the following about the top 14 extraterrestrial signal candidates (on Apr. 02,'02.) which were observed 3 times via the Arecibo radiotelescope:
*Two of the candidates are superimposed over two other candidates on their graph (so it appears that there are only 12)
*None of the candidate positions coincide with the 37 candidate coordinates published in the Horowitz/Sagan META paper of '93.
*2/3 of the triple-viewed candidates appear within the rest-position declination (~18 deg. DEC) of the Arecibo radiotelescope dish.
*One might derive more precise guesses about the RA positions based on their graphs (which I attempt in the following table; CAUTION - my margin of error on the RA might be greater than +/- 6 minutes!.)
CAUTION - THE FOLLOWING ARE JUST ROUGH APPROXIMATIONS BASED ON THE GRAPHS, ONLY THE REAL RESEARCHERS AT SETI@home HAVE THE REAL/ACCURATE DATA!
Newsletter 13 Candidate Position Guesses |
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| Top Candidates | RA | DEC | x location observed | NOT noise rating | x detected |
| 1 | 11h 12m | 14.8 | >7 | high | 3 |
| 2 & 4 | 22h 6m | 12.3 | >11 | high | 3 |
| 3 | 7h 24m | 18.3 | >11 | low-medium | 3 |
| 5 (can.12?) | 5h 30m | 18.1 | >20 | medium | 3 |
| 6 | 6h 54m | 12.3 | >18 | medium-high | 3 |
| 7 | 6h 48m | 18.1 | >20 | medium | 3 |
| 8 | 15h 18m | 18.1 | >20 | medium | 3 |
| 9 | 1h 18m | 18.1 | >20 | high | 3 |
| 10 | 14h 18m | 23.2 | >20 | low-medium | 3 |
| 11 | 0h 48m | 18.0 | >20 | low-medium | 3 |
| 12 (can.5?) | 5h 48m | 17.9 | >20 | medium | 3 |
| 13 & 14 | 3h 42m | 18.1 | >20 | low-medium | 3 |
I've numbered this image to show where in the sky the top 14 candidates are (in RA/DEC)
I made the following animation by superimposing their newsletter graphs to determine how many times the object was observed and what the confidence level was regarding whether it is attributed to random noise:
Thanks for visiting! Jason H.