Highest frequency detection of FRB 121102 at 4–8 GHz using the breakthrough listen digital backend at the green bank telescope

V Gajjar, APV Siemion, DC Price, CJ Law… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first detections of the repeating fast radio burst source FRB 121102 above 5.2
GHz. Observations were performed using the 4–8 GHz receiver of the Robert C. Byrd Green …

Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A

MP Snelders, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels, Z Bensellam… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic transient flashes of radio waves with typical
durations of milliseconds. FRBs have been shown, however, to present a wide range of …

Fast radio burst 121102 pulse detection and periodicity: a machine learning approach

YG Zhang, V Gajjar, G Foster, A Siemion… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the detection of 72 new pulses from the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 in
Breakthrough Listen C-band (4–8 GHz) observations at the Green Bank Telescope. The new …

The breakthrough listen search for intelligent life: 1.1–1.9 GHz observations of 692 nearby stars

JE Enriquez, A Siemion, G Foster, V Gajjar… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

The Breakthrough Listen search for intelligent life: observations of 1327 nearby stars over 1.10–3.45 GHz

DC Price, JE Enriquez, B Brzycki, S Croft… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Breakthrough Listen (BL) is a 10 year initiative to search for signatures of technologically
capable life beyond Earth via radio and optical observations of the local universe. A core …

The Breakthrough Listen Search For Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center. I.

V Gajjar, KI Perez, APV Siemion, G Foster… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A line of sight toward the Galactic Center (GC) offers the largest number of potentially
habitable systems of any direction in the sky. The Breakthrough Listen program is …

The case for technosignatures: Why they may be abundant, long-lived, highly detectable, and unambiguous

JT Wright, J Haqq-Misra, A Frank… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The intuition suggested by the Drake equation implies that technology should be less
prevalent than biology in the galaxy. However, it has been appreciated for decades in the …

The breakthrough listen search for Intelligent Life: Technosignature search of 97 nearby galaxies

C Choza, D Bautista, S Croft, APV Siemion… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Breakthrough Listen search for intelligent life is, to date, the most extensive
technosignature search of nearby celestial objects. We present a radio technosignature …

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

S Smith, DC Price, SZ Sheikh, DJ Czech, S Croft… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The detection of life beyond Earth is an ongoing scientific pursuit, with profound implications.
One approach, known as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), seeks to find …

Searching for technosignatures in exoplanetary systems with current and future missions

J Haqq-Misra, EW Schwieterman, H Socas-Navarro… - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
Technosignatures refer to observational manifestations of technology that could be detected
through astronomical means. Most previous searches for technosignatures have focused on …