COSMIC: All Antennas at the Very Large Array Ready to Stream Data for Technosignature Research

COSMIC: All Antennas at the Very Large Array Ready to Stream Data for Technosignature Research PRESS RELEASE Once the digital backend comes online, SETI observations will be DATE possible 24/7 at the VLA April 4, 2022 April 4, 2022, Mountain View, CA –... More

COSMIC: All Antennas at the Very Large Array Ready to Stream Data for Technosignature Research PRESS RELEASE Once the digital backend comes online, SETI observations will be DATE possible 24/7 at the VLA April 4, 2022 April 4, 2022, Mountain View, CA – COSMIC SETI (the Commensal Open- Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster CONTACT Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Rebecca McDonald Director of took a big step towards using the Communications National Science Foundation’s Karl G. SETI Institute Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) for 24/7 rmcdonald@SETI.org SETI observations. Fiber optic amplifiers and splitters are now installed for all 27 VLA antennas, giving COSMIC access to a complete and independent copy of the data streams from the entire VLA. In addition, the COSMIC system has used these links to successfully acquire VLA data, and the primary focus now is on developing the high-performance GPU SETI Institute Post-Doctoral Researchers, Dr Savin (Graphical Processing Unit) code f Less