Cosmic Call was the name of two sets of interstellar radio messages that were sent from RT-70 in Yevpatoria, Ukraine in 1999 (Cosmic Call 1) and 2003 (Cosmic Call 2) to various nearby stars. The messages were designed with noise-resistant format and characters.Dumas, Stéphane; The 1999 and 2003 messages explained, 2005
The project was funded by Team Encounter, a Texas-based startup, which went out of business in 2004.
Both transmissions were at ~150 kW, 5.01 GHz (FSK +/-24 kHz).
Message structure Each Cosmic Call 1 session had the following structure. The Scientific Part (DDM, BM, AM, and ESM) was sent three times (at 100 bit/s),"Broadcast for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence from Evpatoria Deep Space Center" Report on Cosmic Call 1999 and the Public Part (PP) was sent once (at 2000 bit/s), according to the following arrangement:
DDM → BM → AM → ESM → DDM → BM → AM → ESM → DDM → BM → AM → ESM → PP,
where DDM is the Dutil-Dumas Message, created by Canadian scientists Yvan Dutil and Stéphane Dumas, BM is the Braastad Message, AM is the Arecibo Message, and ESM is the Encounter 2001 Staff Message.
Each Cosmic Call 2 session in 2003 had the following structure:
DDM2 → DDM2 → DDM2 → AM → AM → AM → BIG → BIG → BIG → BM → ESM → PP,
where DDM2 is modernized DDM (aka Interstellar Rosetta Stone, ISR), BIG is Bilingual Image Glossary. All but the PP were transmitted at 400 bit/s
The ISR was 263,906 bits; BM, 88,687 bits, AM, 1,679 bits; BIG was 12 binary images 121,301 bits; ESM 24,899 bits. Total = 500,472 bits for 53 minutes. PP was 220 megabytes and sent at a rate of 100,000 bit/s for 11 hours total.
Error in Cosmic Call 1 The DDM incorrectly gave the neutron mass as 1.67392, instead of the known value of 1.67492. This error was corrected in DDM2.
Stars targeted The messages were sent to the following stars:
Name Constellation Date sent Arrival date Message 16 Cyg A Cygnus May 24, 1999 November 2069Cosmic Call 1 15 Sge Sagitta June 30, 1999 February 2057Cosmic Call 1 HD 178428 Sagitta June 30, 1999 October 2067Cosmic Call 1 Gl 777 Cygnus July 1, 1999 April 2051Cosmic Call 1 GJ 49 Cassiopeia July 6, 2003 April 2036Cosmic Call 2 GJ 208 Orion July 6, 2003 August 2040Cosmic Call 2 55 Cnc Cancer July 6, 2003 May 2044Cosmic Call 2 HD 10307 Andromeda July 6, 2003 September 2044Cosmic Call 2 47 UMa Ursa Major July 6, 2003 May 2049Cosmic Call 2
See also Arecibo message Active SETI Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence Interstellar messages
References
External links
Self-Decoding Messages Discussion of the Call's "Rosetta Stone" and how it was developed Report on Cosmic Call Evpatoria 2003 discussion with bitmap and image