‘Very Good for an American’: Essays on Edward MacDowell. Ed. E. Douglas Bomberger

Deniz Ertan

doi:10.1093/ml/gcy083

‘Very Good for an American’: Essays on Edward MacDowell. Ed. E. Douglas Bomberger

Music and Letters ◽

10.1093/ml/gcy083 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 99 (3) ◽

pp. 497-500

Author(s):

Deniz Ertan

Keyword(s):

Good For ◽

Edward Macdowell

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"Very Good for an American": Essays on Edward MacDowell ed. by E. Douglas Bomberger

Notes ◽

10.1353/not.2019.0039 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 75 (4) ◽

pp. 660-662

Author(s):

Myron Gray

Keyword(s):

Good For ◽

Edward Macdowell

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Seti Figure of Merit

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100015293 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 161 ◽

pp. 711-717 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John W. Dreher ◽

D. Kent Cullers

Keyword(s):

Figure Of Merit ◽

Qualitative Difference ◽

Current Generation ◽

Detection Range ◽

Sky Surveys ◽

Independent Observations ◽

Good For

AbstractWe develop a figure of merit for SETI observations which is anexplicitfunction of the EIRP of the transmitters, which allows us to treat sky surveys and targeted searches on the same footing. For each EIRP, we calculate the product of terms measuring the number of stars within detection range, the range of frequencies searched, and the number of independent observations for each star. For a given set of SETI observations, the result is a graph of merit versus transmitter EIRP. We apply this technique to several completed and ongoing SETI programs. The results provide a quantitative confirmation of the expected qualitative difference between sky surveys and targeted searches: the Project Phoenix targeted search is good for finding transmitters in the 109to 1014W range, while the sky surveys do their best at higher powers. Current generation optical SETI is not yet competitive with microwave SETI.

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