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most citedThe Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Target Selection of Nearby Stars and Galaxies

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astro-ph.IM2021★ 33 cited

A radio technosignature search towards Proxima Centauri resulting in a signal-of-interest

Shane Smith, Danny C Price, Sofia Z Sheikh +15

The detection of life beyond Earth is an ongoing scientific endeavour, with profound implications. One approach, known as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), seeks…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 41 cited

Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework

Sofia Z. Sheikh, Shane Smith, Danny C. Price +15

The aim of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to find technologically-capable life beyond Earth through their technosignatures. On 2019 April 29, the Breakthrou…

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★ 25 cited

A Statistical Analysis of the Nulling Pulsar Population

Sofia Z. Sheikh, Mariah G. MacDonald

Approximately 8% of the 2800 known pulsars exhibit "nulling," a temporary broadband cessation of normal pulsar emission. Nulling behaviour can be coarsely quantified by the n…

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.EP2021★ 25 cited

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Searching for Technosignatures in Observations of TESS Targets of Interest

Raffy Traas, Steve Croft, Vishal Gajjar +10

Exoplanetary systems are prime targets for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). With the recent uptick in the identification of candidate and confirmed exoplanets t…