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 …

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 …

Concepts for future missions to search for technosignatures

H Socas-Navarro, J Haqq-Misra, JT Wright… - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
New and unique opportunities now exist to look for technosignatures (TS) beyond traditional
SETI radio searches, motivated by tremendous advances in exoplanet science and …

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 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 …

Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework

SZ Sheikh, S Smith, DC Price, D DeBoer, BC Lacki… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
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 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: public data, formats, reduction, and archiving

M Lebofsky, S Croft, APV Siemion… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Breakthrough Listen is the most comprehensive and sensitive search for extraterrestrial
intelligence (SETI) to date, employing a collection of international observational facilities …

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 …

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 …