Panoramic SETI: overall focal plane electronics and timing and network protocols

Wei Liu; Dan Werthimer; Ryan Lee; Franklin Antonio; Michael Aronson; Aaron Brown; Frank Drake; Andrew Howard; Paul Horowitz; Jerome Maire; Rick Raffanti; Remington Stone; Richard Treffers; Shelley A. Wright

doi:10.1117/12.2561203

13 December 2020 Panoramic SETI: overall focal plane electronics and timing and network protocols

Wei Liu, Dan Werthimer, Ryan Lee, Franklin Antonio, Michael Aronson, Aaron Brown, Frank Drake, Andrew Howard, Paul Horowitz, Jerome Maire, Rick Raffanti, Remington Stone, Richard Treffers, Shelley A. Wright

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Proceedings Volume 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 114477G (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561203
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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The PANOSETI experiment is an all-sky, all-the-time visible search for nanosecond to millisecond time-scale transients. The experiment will deploy observatory domes at several sites, each dome containing ~45 telescopes and covering ~4,440 square degrees. Here we describe the focal-plane electronics for the visible wavelength telescopes, each of which contains a Mother Board and four Quadrant Boards. On each quadrant board, 256 silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) photon detectors are arranged to measure pulse heights to search for nanosecond time-scale pulses. To simultaneously examine pulse widths over a large range of time scales (nanoseconds to milliseconds), the instrument implements both a Continuous Imaging Mode (CI-Mode) and a Pulse Height Mode (PH-Mode). Precise timing is implemented in the gateware with the White Rabbit protocol.

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Wei Liu, Dan Werthimer, Ryan Lee, Franklin Antonio, Michael Aronson, Aaron Brown, Frank Drake, Andrew Howard, Paul Horowitz, Jerome Maire, Rick Raffanti, Remington Stone, Richard Treffers, and Shelley A. Wright "Panoramic SETI: overall focal plane electronics and timing and network protocols", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 114477G (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561203

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