no code implementations • 24 Feb 2023 • Peter Xiangyuan Ma, Steve Croft, Chris Lintott, Andrew P. V. Siemion
This algorithm can be used to improve the efficiency of vetting signals of interest in technosignature searches, but could also be applied to a wider variety of searches for "lookalike" signals in large astronomical datasets.
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
no code implementations • 13 Mar 2019 • Mayuresh P. Surnis, Devansh Agarwal, Duncan R. Lorimer, Xin Pei, Griffin Foster, Aris Karastergiou, Golnoosh Golpayegani, Ronald J. Maddalena, Steve White, Wes Armour, Jeff Cobb, Maura A. McLaughlin, David H. E. MacMahon, Andrew P. V. Siemion, Dan Werthimer, Chris J. Williams
We describe the design and deployment of GREENBURST, a commensal Fast Radio Burst (FRB) search system at the Green Bank Telescope.
Instrumentation and Methods for 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
2 code implementations • 16 Dec 2014 • Andrew P. V. Siemion, James Benford, Jin Cheng-Jin, Jayanth Chennamangalam, James Cordes, David R. DeBoer, Heino Falcke, Mike Garrett, Simon Garrington, Leonid Gurvits, Melvin Hoare, Eric J. Korpela, Joseph Lazio, David Messerschmitt, Ian S. Morrison, Tim O'Brien, Zsolt Paragi, Alan Penny, Laura Spitler, Jill Tarter, Dan Werthimer
The vast collecting area of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), harnessed by sensitive receivers, flexible digital electronics and increased computational capacity, could permit the most sensitive and exhaustive search for technologically-produced radio emission from advanced extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) ever performed.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics