Optical SETI with Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes

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The idea of searching for optical signals from extraterrestrial civilizations has become increasingly popular over the last five years, with dedicated projects at a number of observatories. The method relies on the detection of a brief (few ns), intense light pulse with fast photon detectors. Ground-based gamma-ray telescopes such as the Whipple 10m, providing a large mirror area and equipped with an array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), are ideal instruments for this kind of observation if the background of cosmic-ray events can be rejected. We report here on a method for searching for optical SETI pulses, using background discrimination techniques based on the image shape.
4 pages. Submitted to the 29th ICRC, Pune

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/9369

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https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506758
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