4 papers
The Ohio SETI Program -- The Last Decades
Abel Méndez, Robert S. Dixon, Russell K. Childers
The Ohio State University Radio Observatory (OSURO), known as the Big Ear, played a pivotal role in both radio astronomy and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Fo…
Arecibo Wow! II: Revised Properties of the Wow! Signal from Archival Ohio SETI Data
Abel Méndez, Kevin N. Ortiz Ceballos, Jorge I. Zuluaga +8
The Wow! Signal, detected in 1977 by the Ohio State University SETI project, remains one of the most intriguing unexplained radio transients. The most recent significant revision o…
The Last Arecibo Message
Kelby D. Palencia-Torres, César F. Quiñones-MartÃnez, Javier A. GarcÃa Sepúlveda +4
The Arecibo Message was a brief binary-encoded communication transmitted into space from the Arecibo Observatory on November 16, 1974, intended to demonstrate human technological p…
The Fear of Halley's Comet Visit in 1910 is Preserved in a Cave in Southern Puerto Rico
Abel Méndez, Ãngel Acosta-Colón
This paper explores a unique cave art found in southern Puerto Rico that depicts a comet over a tomb. Through interdisciplinary methods, including art interpretation, historical do…