"Broadcast for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence

from Evpatoria Deep Space Center"

 Report on Cosmic Call 1999

 

Prof. Alexander L. Zaitsev

Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics Russian Academy of Science

 Dr. Sergey P. Ignatov

Institute of Space Device Engineering Russian Space Agency

 

CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Methodology

4. Hardware Upgrade

5. Software Upgrade

6. Cosmic Call Sessions

7. Future Prospects

8. Supplement: Cosmic Call Logbook

 

Introduction

 

This Report outlines methodology, hard- and software, which were developed to transmit first public Interstellar messages from Evpatoria Deep Space Center (EDSC), and describes four Cosmic Call Sessions, which were fulfilled in EDSC on May 24 and June 30 - July 1, 1999.

 

Background

 

The Encounter 2001 Mission (www.teamencounter.com) consists of two elements: The Cosmic Call and The Millennial Voyage. The first one represents the series of interstellar transmissions to the stars, which have the similar spectral type as Sun and probably, the own planetary system. The selection of this stars is mainly base on the SETI Institute target list (Yvan Dutil, e-mail communication on 5 Jun 99):

TABLE 1. Target Stars

Target Number	1	2	3	4	5
Star Name	HD178428	HD186408	HD190067	HD190360	HD190406
Visual Magnitude	6.08	5.99	7.15	5.73	5.08
Spectral Type	G5V	G2V	G8V	G6IV+	G1V
Light Years	68.3	70.5	63.0	51.8	57.6
RA, J2000	19h07m57.32s	19h41m48.95s	20h02m34.15s	20h03m37.41s	20h04m06.23s
PMRA, arcsec/yr	0.06561	- 0.14775	- 0.18607	0.68332	- 0.39407
LY * PMRA	4.48s	- 10.42s	- 11.72s	35.40s	- 22.70s
RA + LY * PMRA	19h08m01.80s	19h41m38.53s	20h02m22.43s	20h04m12.81s	20h03m43.53s
Dec, J2000	+16d51m12.24s	+50d31m30.21s	+15d35m35.51s	+29d53m48.51s	+17d04m12.64s
PMDec, arcsec/yr	- 0.30446	- 0.15885	- 0.58207	- 0.52406	- 0.40642
LY * PMDec	- 20.79	- 11.20s	- 36.67	- 27.15s	- 23.41
Dec + LY * PMDec