SETI Search Summary

*Note: NASA High resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS) was cancelled, but the targeted component evolved into Project Phoenix. Note also that a search archive can be found here: www.seti.org/searcharchive

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• The Reference for each paper is given as the first author's last name followed by the year the paper was published.
• The Survey, targeted, or commensal? field is asking whether this SETI search was a blind sky-scan, if it aimed at carefully selected targets, or if it was piggybacking on other astronomical observations.
• The Single Location field is asking whether this search focused on just one object -- answer should be yes or no.
• The Narrow or wideband? field is asking whether the search was looking for narrowband or wideband signals.
• The *Ping or long-duration" field is asking whether the search just did quick looks at each object (pings, term cred. Seth Shostak) or if the search landed for longer periods of time on each object (defined as > xx minutes).
• The Planned or done? field is asking whether the paper indicated outlines a search plan or summarizes results from a search already undertaken.
• The Other notes field is self-explanatory.

Reference	Survey, targeted, or commensal?	# of sources	Narrow or wideband?	Ping or long-duration?	Planned or done?	Other notes
Cuzzi78						No access to this source
Murray78						No access
Drake79	Targeted	2	Narrow	Long	Done
Knapp79	Survey		Narrow	Ping	Plan	NASA High Res Microwave Survey
Townes79						Source not really applicable
Kardashev79						Source N/A
Cohen80						No access
Tarter80	Targeted	201	Narrow		Done	No article access
Frietas80					Plan	Advocates searching for probes not signals
Clancy80						No access
Wolfe81	Both	>700	Narrow	Ping	Plan	Interesting paper, read later -- Cosmic Haystack
Tarter82	Survey	542	Narrow	Ping	Done	Commensal results from HI maps
Dixon85	Survey	Several	Narrow	Ping	Done	Interesting paper, read later
Knowles85
Gindilis86						No access
Ksanfomaliti86						Search for planetary systems, not ET
Klein89	Survey	Several	Narrow	Ping	Plan	NASA High Res Microwave Survey
Blair92	Targeted	176	Narrow	Ping	Done
Oliver93						Suggests freq. range not search technique
Latham93	Targeted	Several	Narrow	Ping	Plan	NASA High Res Microwave Survey
Horowitz93	Survey	Several	Narrow	Ping	Done	Transit scans done over 5 years
Kingsley93						Argument to revisit optical SETI
Lemarchand94	Targeted	4	Narrow	?	Plan	Plan to use SN as comm. tool
2Lemarchand94						Policy discussion not search strategy
Steffes94	Targeted	40	Narrow	Ping?	Done	Search at positronium freq.
Latham95						Same as Latham93
Sagan95						Source not applicable
Helmers96	Targeted	?	?	?	Plan	Searching for ET asteroid defence radars
Shostak96	Targeted	3	Narrow	?	Done	SMC search
Mauersberger96	Targeted	17	Narrow	Ping (<=60m)	Done	Search at positronium freq.
Tarter96	Targeted	202	Narrow	Ping	Done	Phoenix - AU part
Bowyer97						Overview of other searches
Dixon97						No access
Shuch97	Survey?	Several	Narrow?	Ping?	Plan	No article access
Cordes97						Data analysis not search
Dreher97						Data analysis not search
Cullers97						Discusses calibration not search
2Bowyer97	Commensal	Several	Narrow	Ping	Done	SERENDIP
Lemarchand97			Narrow		Done	META II, no article access
Leigh97					Done	META and BETA, no article access
Tarter97	Targeted	209	Narrow	Ping	Done	Project Phoenix
Airieu98	Commensal	Several	Narrow	Ping	Done	SERENDIP, No article access
*Barnhart98						Recap of OSU survey history
Backus98						Recap of Phoenix tech. performance
DiStefano99						Astrobio., not SETI search
Howard00	Survey	Several	?	Ping	Plan	Optical all-sky search
Cullers00	Targeted	~500	Narrow	Ping	Done	Phoenix
Lampton00					Plan	See pp. 568-569 for outlines of optical searches
Tarter01					Done	See pp. 534-539 for outlines of searches
Howard01	Commensal?	?	?	Ping	Plan	Optical SETI with TPF
Eichler01	Commensal	Several	?	Ping	Plan	Optical SETI w/ Air Cerenkovs
Corbet01	Targeted	Several	?	?	Plan	Perform scans when Earth and exoplanets are at 'opposition'
2Tarter01					Plan	Paper outlines 3 search techniques
Marcos02	Targeted	?	?	?	Plan	Star cluster search
Backus02	Targeted	~250	Narrow	Ping?	Done	Phoenix
Gray02	Targeted	2	Narrow	Long	Done	Wow! Signal locale
Lazio02	Targeted	9	Narrow	Ping	Done	Subset of Phoenix
Ellery03						No access; article seems to be mainly critique
Shostak04	Survey	Several	?	Ping?	Plan	Optical SETI observing scheme
Backus04	Targeted	~800	Narrow	Ping	Done	Phoenix final summary
Holder05						Optical SETI w/ Cherenkovs
Tarter06						Historical article, no search outline
Reines06	Targeted	577	Narrow	Ping	Done	Optical SETI
DeBoer06						No article access
Teodorani06						Read later
Howard07	Survey	Several	?	Ping	Done	Optical survey
Welch09						Paper focuses on ATA system not search
Tarter09						1000 foot look at SETI, contains a few different search plans
Benford10	Targeted survey	Several	Broad	Ping	Plan	Proposal to search galactic plane for hi-freq transmitters
Tarter10						Broad overview, not really search techniques outlined
Bowyer11	Commensal	Several	Narrow	?	Done	SERENDIP
Doyle11						Doesn’t describe search method, but need to read later!
Shuch11	Targeted	2	Narrow	Long	Done	Describes Project Ozma
Shostak11						No access
Tarter11						No access
Korpela11						Outlines 4 obs. programs; incl. Astropulse
Rampadarath12	Targeted	1	Narrow	Long (8h)	Done	Study of Gliese 581 w/ VLBI
Siemion13	Targeted	86	Narrow	Ping	Done	Study of Kepler field
Arnold13						Describes transmit techniques, incl. transit timing
Gillon13	Targeted	?	Narrow?	Ping	Plan	Plan to observe focal regions of several nearby stars
Siemion14						Describes several techniques to be used w/SKA
Wright14	Targeted	~100	Narrow?	Ping	Plan	IR SETI plan
Maire16	Targeted	1340	Narrow?	Ping	Plan	IR SETI plan, revised
Croft16	Targeted	1	Narrow	Short duration	Done	Follow-up of RATAN signal
Tingay16	Survey	Several	? (10 kHz)	Ping	Done	MWA survey
Schuetz16	Targeted	1	?	Long dur.	Done	Optical obs. of Tabby's Star
Heller16	Targeted	82 (w/in 1kpc)	?	?	Plan	Proposal to observe the part of the sky where Earth's solar transit is visible

-- EllieWhite - 2018-06-23