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
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
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