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Breakthrough Listen's Automated Commensal Technosignature Survey with MeerKAT
Daniel J. Czech, David H. E. MacMahon, Ian Heywood +20
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is an ongoing effort to detect technosignatures, evidence of technologically capable life beyond Earth. Conducting a comprehensi…
Dust to Dust: Prospects for Passive Technosignatures as Relics of ETI
Brian C. Lacki
Technological societies are separated in time, not just space -- that is the lesson of the Drake equation. Might the best way to seek them be to find technosignatures that persist…
Technosignature Searches of Interstellar Objects
James R. A. Davenport, Sofia Z. Sheikh, Steve Croft +17
With the discovery of the third confirmed interstellar object (ISO), 3I/ATLAS, we have entered a new phase in the exploration of these long-predicted objects. Though confirmed disc…
Flickers, Bursts, and Dips: Detecting Rapid Variability with the g(2) Autocorrelation Function
Brian C. Lacki
Rapid optical transient events can be hard to detect because of the limited number of photons they produce. I discuss a method of inferring the presence of fast, chaotic variabilit…
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Technosignature Search of 97 Nearby Galaxies
Carmen Choza, Daniel Bautista, Steve Croft +18
The Breakthrough Listen search for intelligent life is, to date, the most extensive technosignature search of nearby celestial objects. We present a radio technosignature search of…
On Detecting Interstellar Scintillation in Narrowband Radio SETI
Bryan Brzycki, Andrew P. V. Siemion, Imke de Pater +4
To date, the search for radio technosignatures has focused on sky location as a primary discriminant between technosignature candidates and anthropogenic radio frequency interferen…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Type III Societies (Apparently) Do Not Exist
Brian C. Lacki
[Abridged] Whether technological societies remain small and planet-bound like our own, or ultimately span across galaxies is an open question in the Search for Extraterrestrial Int…
Arbitrary Transform Telescopes: The Generalization of Interferometry
Brian C. Lacki
The basic principle of astronomical interferometry is to derive the angular distribution of radiation in the sky from the Fourier transform of the electric field on the ground. Wha…
Cherenkov Telescopes as Optical Telescopes for Bright Sources: Today's Specialised Thirty Metre Telescopes?
Brian C. Lacki
Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) use large-aperture (~ 10 - 30 m) optical telescopes with arcminute angular resolution to detect TeV gamma-rays in the atmosphere. I…