12月7日新闻！

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http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/reobs_summary.html

原文如下：


Current Status of the March 2003 SETI@home Candidate Reobservations  
  
Note: For a recap of our candidate reobservations, please see this Planetary Society article and some related informational pages.

We are now entering the final stages of analysis. In August we distributed work units containing data from the reobservations to our users (for a second time). It took several weeks for these work units to be generated and sent out, and several more for all the results to return from our users and be inserted into our database.

For the results to be analyzed, the data have to be verified (via redundancy checking). Unfortunately, we hit several technical snags during this procedure which slowed down any scientific progress. At this time we still haven't completed the verification, but we are close enough that the final analysis has already started.

While at Arecibo, we observed 226 different points in the sky containing mostly SETI@home candidates, but also some SERENDIP candidates and interesting astronomical objects when we had extra time.

So now the procedure is this: For each of these points in the sky we scan these verified results to see if we found similar signals during these observations (or in the case of the non-SETI@home candidates, seeing if we found any signals at all).

At the time of writing we are waiting for these database queries to finish. Once complete, we are going to rescore the candidates. For most of these candidates, the lack of matching signals during reobservations will cause their score to go down. However, a few scores should go up. This does not mean we found E.T.! Random noise will ring the bell a few times, as will radio frequency interference coming from our own planet.

We will present these new scores once we have them, and then inspect the candidates with increased scores with much more scrutiny, trying our best to find reasons why they are not interesting. If any continue to raise eyebrows, we will publish all our data and ask other SETI projects to see if they find anything there as well.

No matter the outcome of these analyses, this is not the end of the project. The candidate set for these reobservations were based on roughly the first 50% of SETI@home data, and we'll repeat the whole process again when the last 50% is done.

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