SETI / Breakthrough Listen REU 2021 materials

This repository contains miscellanous materials used with the SETI and Breakthrough Listen Research Experience for Undergraduates summer programs. The material was elaborated in the context of the collaboration between GNU Radio and SETI Institute.

Outline

• ata-control contains a Jupyter notebook that teaches how to control the ATA using the ata_control Python module from ATA-Utils. This was used together with Hydrogen_line_ZMQ to set up an activity where the students could freely observe different parts of the Hydrogen line of the Milky Way.

• Hydrogen_line_ZMQ contains a ZMQ server that streams IQ data from the USRPs of the ATA GNU Radio backend and a client that plots the Hydrogen line spectrum.

• Voyager1_GBT uses a Voyager-1 recording from Green Bank Telescope to show how to compute spectrum and waterfall data with GNU Radio