SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-end Processing
Summary
SETI@home describes its front-end data acquisition and processing pipeline for radio time-domain data, detailing Arecibo observations, data splitting into workunits, radar blanking, and five detection types (spikes, Gaussians, pulses, triplets, autocorrelations). It emphasizes coherent integration across a wide range of Doppler drift rates, threshold-based detections, and validation through Voyager 1 and Crab pulsar data.