1 code implementation • 30 Jan 2023 • Peter Xiangyuan Ma, Cherry Ng, Leandro Rizk, Steve Croft, Andrew P. V. Siemion, Bryan Brzycki, Daniel Czech, Jamie Drew, Vishal Gajjar, John Hoang, Howard Isaacson, Matt Lebofsky, David MacMahon, Imke de Pater, Danny C. Price, Sofia Z. Sheikh, S. Pete Worden
The goal of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is to quantify the prevalence of technological life beyond Earth via their "technosignatures".
no code implementations • 13 Jan 2021 • Jakob T. Faber, Vishal Gajjar, Andrew P. V. Siemion, Steve Croft, Daniel Czech, David DeBoer, Julia DeMarines, Jamie Drew, Howard Isaacson, Brian C. Lacki, Matt Lebofsky, David H. E. MacMahon, Cherry Ng, Imke de Pater, Danny C. Price, Sofia Z. Sheikh, Claire Webb, S. Pete Worden
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 Green Bank Telescope, originally taken on 2017 August 26.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
1 code implementation • 18 Oct 2017 • Susan E. Thompson, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Kelsey Hoffman, Fergal Mullally, Jessie L. Christiansen, Christopher J. Burke, Steve Bryson, Natalie Batalha, Michael R. Haas, Joseph Catanzarite, Jason F. Rowe, Geert Barentsen, Douglas A. Caldwell, Bruce D. Clarke, Jon M. Jenkins, Jie Li, David W. Latham, Jack J. Lissauer, Savita Mathur, Robert L. Morris, Shawn E. Seader, Jeffrey C. Smith, Todd C. Klaus, Joseph D. Twicken, Bill Wohler, Rachel Akeson, David R. Ciardi, William D. Cochran, Thomas Barclay, Jennifer R. Campbell, William J. Chaplin, David Charbonneau, Christopher E. Henze, Steve B. Howell, Daniel Huber, Andrej Prsa, Solange V. Ramirez, Timothy D. Morton, Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jessie L. Dotson, Laurance Doyle, Edward W. Dunham, Andrea K. Dupree, Eric B. Ford, John C. Geary, Forrest R. Girouard, Howard Isaacson, Hans Kjeldsen, Jason H. Steffen, Elisa V. Quintana, Darin Ragozzine, Megan Shabram, Avi Shporer, Victor Silva Aguirre, Martin Still, Peter Tenenbaum, William F. Welsh, Angie Wolfgang, Khadeejah A. Zamudio, David G. Koch, William J. Borucki
For orbital periods less than 100 days the Robovetter completeness (the fraction of simulated transits that are determined to be planet candidates) across all observed stars is greater than 85%.
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
3 code implementations • 11 Sep 2017 • J. Emilio Enriquez, Andrew Siemion, Griffin Foster, Vishal Gajjar, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Howard Isaacson, Danny C. Price, Steve Croft, David DeBoer, Matt Lebofsky, David MacMahon, Dan Werthimer
We report on a search for engineered signals from a sample of 692 nearby stars using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, undertaken as part of the $Breakthrough~Listen~Initiative$ search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2 code implementations • 22 Jan 2017 • Howard Isaacson, Andrew P. V. Siemion, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Matt Lebofsky, Danny C. Price, David MacMahon, Steve Croft, David DeBoer, Jack Hickish, Dan Werthimer, Sofia Sheikh, Greg Hellbourg, J. Emilio Enriquez
On the way to observing 1, 000, 000 nearby stars in search of technological signals, we present three main sets of objects we plan to observe in addition to a smaller sample of exotica.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics