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most citedThe Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Public Data, Formats, Reduction and Archiving

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astro-ph.EP2022★ 10 cited

A Green Bank Telescope search for narrowband technosignatures between 1.1-1.9 GHz during 12 Kepler planetary transits

Sofia Z. Sheikh, Shubham Kanodia, Emily Lubar +12

A growing avenue for determining the prevalence of life beyond Earth is to search for "technosignatures" from extraterrestrial intelligences/agents. Technosignatures require signif…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 11 cited

Venus Life Finder Habitability Mission: Motivation, Science Objectives, and Instrumentation

Sara Seager, Janusz J. Petkowski, Christopher E. Carr +10

For over half a century, scientists have contemplated the potential existence of life within the clouds of Venus. Unknown chemistry leaves open the possibility that certain regions…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 38 cited

Venus Life Finder Missions Motivation and Summary

Sara Seager, Janusz J. Petkowski, Christopher E. Carr +10

Finding evidence of extraterrestrial life would be one of the most profound scientific discoveries ever made, advancing humanity into a new epoch of cosmic awareness. The Venus Lif…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 15 cited

Pandora: A fast open-source exomoon transit detection algorithm

Michael Hippke, René Heller

We present Pandora, a new software to model, detect, and characterize transits of extrasolar planets with moons in stellar photometric time series. Pandora uses an analytical descr…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 25 cited

Searching for broadband pulsed beacons from 1883 stars using neural networks

Vishal Gajjar, Dominic LeDuc, Jiani Chen +19

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence at radio frequencies has largely been focused on continuous-wave narrowband signals. We demonstrate that broadband pulsed beacons are e…

astro-ph.HE2022

4-8 GHz Fourier-domain Searches for Galactic Center Pulsars

Akshay Suresh, James M. Cordes, Shami Chatterjee +6

The Galactic Center (GC), with its high density of massive stars, is a promising target for radio transient searches. In particular, the discovery and timing of a pulsar orbiting t…