Rumors among usersSeti @ homeAbout the supposed discovery of an alien signal through the project
:Seti@home Astronomers deny reports of receiving signals from aliens
Astronomers have worked vigorously in recent days to quell speculation that a radio signal from intelligent extraterrestrial beings has recently been received on Earth. From reports on the internet that signals from intelligent beings have been clearly detected through a project Seti @ home which uses the unused processing time of personal computers around the world to analyze data received from radio telescopes.
"It's a lot of fuss about nothing," says the project's chief scientist, Dr. Dan Wertheimer. "We didn't discover anything unusual, and everything was blown out of proportion."
Dr. Paul Horowitz from Harvard University, an expert in hunting possible alien signals, also added: "There was nothing special, we are not even continuing to investigate this signal.
For six years, a project Seti @ home Use screensavers on millions of computers worldwide to scan the databases for anything unusual. The information is collected by radio telescopes all over the world that scan the sky for unusual signals from space. It is believed that intelligent beings will seek to broadcast radio signals throughout the universe to contact other intelligent civilizations.
Over the years, scanned in Seti @ home Hundreds of thousands of suspect signal series and statistical tools are used only to identify them as anomalies. About 150 signals survived the process and were passed on for further examination, but none of them survived the rigorous examination designed to identify whether they originated from ET.
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The signal that captured the excitement of the media on Thursday is known as SHGb02+14a and it was discovered for the first time by computers running the software Seti @ home in Germany and the USA. The signal was at a frequency of 1420 MHz, one of the main frequencies of the most common element - hydrogen.
Speaking from the radio telescope site in Arecibo, Wertheimer told the BBC that the team found nothing in the transmitter to get excited about. At this stage we have no candidates we are excited about and testing the 'new' broadcaster is not a priority. "We are in Seti @ home We analyzed about 50 trillion frequency bands. It is not surprising that such a sign appears in the hands of pure chance."
Dr. Horowitz, who searches for signals from aliens using optical telescopes, said that the signal is not a signal and is not new.
