Commissioning and testing of SERENDIP VI instrumentation USNC-URSI national radio science meeting

SERENDIP VI is the sixth installment of the Berkeley SETI Research Center's Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations program, which has been ongoing since 1979. Installed on the Arecibo and Green Bank Telescopes in 2014 and 2015, respectively, this latest version of SERENDIP is currently recording approximately 300 signals per minute. Like its younger sibling project, SETI@home, SERENDIP is a commensal program that piggybacks on other users observations, looking for evidence of narrow-band radio emission from extraterrestrial technologies. SERENDIP VI at Arecibo performs high-resolution (1 Hz) channelization of up to seven 300 MHz bandwidth dual-polarization inputs. SERENDIP VI at GBT performs the same analysis over a single 1.5 GHz dual-polarization input.