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Using the Very Large Array (VLA) and other radio telescopes to perform a parasitic Search for Extraterrestrial
1Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.
Acta Astronautica
|January 1, 1985
Abstract:
This paper describes several attempts to utilize various radio telescopes in a manner that we term "parasitic," that is in a manner that does not interrupt or seriously impact the standard astronomical observing programs in progress at the radio observatories. In the extreme case, only recorded astronomical data are accessed off-line, after the fact, without any burden on the observatory at all.