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Preferred frequency for interstellar communications
It is suggested that the 4829.659-MHz line frequency of the1(11)-to-1(10) rotational transition of formaldehyde is a plausiblefrequency to monitor for the purpose of detecting interstellarcommunications. The formaldehyde line is of interest because, as aresult of the antimaser effect, it exhibits a very low excitationtemperature. The background radiation temperature in the direction ofdark clouds is below the 3 K background temperature; the backgroundnoise temperature, lowered approximately 1 K, is lower than at any otherfrequency band.
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| Constellation: | Centaurus |
| Right ascension: | 13h00m40.40s |
| Declination: | -62°39'57.2" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.419 |
| Distance: | 131.579 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -59.7 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -68.7 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.518 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.51 |
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