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most citedThe Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Observations of 1327 Nearby Stars over 1.10-3.45 GHz

114 citations · 357 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.pop-ph2026

Signs and Signatures of Intelligence

Julia DeMarines

Research into the emergence and evolution of intelligence is underrepresented in astrobiology. I propose noosemiotics, the study of noosignatures, to address this gap. Noosignature…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Search for Technosignatures: a Review of Possibilities

Clément Vidal, Benji L. Fields, Damian R. Sowinski +19

This paper reviews the diverse range of technosignatures that have been proposed in the literature. We organize the review by spatial scales from the Earth and the solar system to…

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.EP2022★ 18 cited

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Technosignature Search of Transiting TESS Targets of Interest

Noah Franz, Steve Croft, Andrew P. V. Siemion +11

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, as part of its larger mission, is performing the most thorough technosignature search of nearby stars. Additionally, Breakthrough Listen is coll…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 64 cited

The Breakthrough Listen Search For Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center I

Vishal Gajjar, Karen I. Perez, Andrew P. V. Siemion +23

A line-of-sight towards the Galactic Center (GC) offers the largest number of potentially habitable systems of any direction in the sky. The Breakthrough Listen program is undertak…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 27 cited

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection

Daniel Czech, Howard Isaacson, Logan Pearce +18

New radio telescope arrays offer unique opportunities for large-scale commensal SETI surveys. Ethernet-based architectures are allowing multiple users to access telescope data simu…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

Re-Analysis of Breakthrough Listen Observations of FRB 121102: Polarization Properties of Eight New Spectrally Narrow Bursts

Jakob T. Faber, Vishal Gajjar, Andrew P. V. Siemion +15

We report polarization properties for eight narrowband bursts from FRB 121102 that have been re-detected in a high-frequency (4-8 GHz) Breakthrough Listen observation with the Gree…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 14 cited

Narrow-Band Signal Localization for SETI on Noisy Synthetic Spectrogram Data

Bryan Brzycki, Andrew P. V. Siemion, Steve Croft +12

As it stands today, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is highly dependent on our ability to detect interesting candidate signals, or technosignatures, in radio te…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 4 cited

One of Everything: The Breakthrough Listen Exotica Catalog

Brian C. Lacki, Bryan Brzycki, Steve Croft +12

We present Breakthrough Listen's "Exotica" Catalog as the centerpiece of our efforts to expand the diversity of targets surveyed in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SE…

astro-ph.IM2020

Opportunities to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope

Di Li, Vishal Gajjar, Pei Wang +31

The discovery of ubiquitous habitable extrasolar planets, combined with revolutionary advances in instrumentation and observational capabilities, has ushered in a renaissance in th…

astro-ph.EP2019

Breakthrough Listen Follow-up of the Random Transiter (EPIC 249706694/HD 139139) with the Green Bank Telescope

Bryan Brzycki, Andrew P. V. Siemion, Steve Croft +16

The star EPIC 249706694 (HD 139139) was found to exhibit 28 transit-like events over an 87 day period during the Kepler mission's K2 Campaign 15 (Rappaport et al. 2019). These even…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Vishal Gajjar, Andrew Siemion, Steve Croft +34

The discovery of the ubiquity of habitable extrasolar planets, combined with revolutionary advances in instrumentation and observational capabilities, have ushered in a renaissance…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 114 cited

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Observations of 1327 Nearby Stars over 1.10-3.45 GHz

Danny C. Price, J. Emilio Enriquez, Bryan Brzycki +21

Breakthrough Listen (BL) is a ten-year initiative to search for signatures of technologically capable life beyond Earth via radio and optical observations of the local Universe. A…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 71 cited

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

Matthew Lebofsky, Steve Croft, Andrew P. V. Siemion +22

Breakthrough Listen is the most comprehensive and sensitive search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) to date, employing a collection of international observational facilitie…

physics.pop-ph2011★ 18 cited

A Protocol for Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Dimitra Atri, Julia DeMarines, Jacob Haqq-Misra

Messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) is a branch of study concerned with constructing and broadcasting a message toward habitable planets. Since the Arecibo message of…