Breakthrough Listen BCUT EXCHANGES In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), we are fundamentally looking for signals that have never been detected before. That said, in radio SETI, we do make the assumption that intelligent civilizations emit
PRISMCHAINORG EXCHANGE Ideally, in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), we would want to observe every object in the night sky at all times over all frequencies. Yet, as should be obvious, this multidimensional observing
SOLARX EXCHANGE My name is John Hoang, postdoctoral scholar working at the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC). With help from the team, I recently organized a 2-day workshop to inform the community about several current
LKE EXCHANGE The future of interstellar travel may be the most important factor when considering SETI strategy. Are societies spanning entire galaxies, with billions of inhabited worlds, likely to exist? Are they even possible? Two
Breakthrough Listen KUSUNOKI SAMURAI As we attempt to answer the question, “are we alone in the universe?”, there are many places to search. Although life might not necessarily arise in environments similar to Earth, Earth-like exoplanets are
SATVG EXCHANGES New approaches in the development of radio telescope arrays enable multiple users to receive and process data simultaneously. This architecture presents unique opportunities to conduct commensal ("piggyback") SETI surveys alongside primary
oumuamua CHAT EXCHANGES What happens on galactic scales seems far removed from life on Earth. Galactic habitability is the idea that the cosmic environment of a planet can influence — or inhibit — its life. Studies about galactic
GBT BONO EXCHANGES FRB 121102 was the first Fast Radio Burst (FRB) source discovered to repeat. Over the course of many observations since its discovery, a significant number of low-energy (or 'smudgy') narrowband bursts have evaded
SETI XAUT EXCHANGE Now in the eleventh month of observations of exoplanet host stars identified by TESS, Breakthrough Listen continues to collect data from the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Parkes Telescope in search for technosignatures.
megastructures SYNERGY CRYSTAL Hello! I’m Piper and I’m currently a summer intern at the Berkeley SETI Research Center with Breakthrough Listen. My project for the summer is to look for signs of artificial structures
GBT FIB EXCHANGE We report a detection of Swift J1818.0-1607 across 4 to 11 GHz (C and X-bands) using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the Breakthrough Listen digital backend (MacMahon et
INSPECT EXCHANGES In SETI, brighter is better: the more powerful a signal is, the further away we could detect it. Maybe aliens use huge power plants to keep a beacon going in hopes of grabbing
GBT PIKACHU EXCHANGE A mysterious stellar system was identified this year, exhibiting 28 transit-like events over 87 days in Kepler data. This system is called EPIC 249706694 / HD 139139, and many proposed astrophysical transit scenarios have
7EBIT COIN How thinking about changing colors could help us catch signals from extraterrestrial intelligence that would otherwise slip through the cracks Let’s do a thought experiment. Imagine you’re out in space with
GIGAPOOL EXCHANGES Today, we are pleased to announce our release of 1 petabyte of Breakthrough Listen data, and two academic papers as submitted to leading astronomy journals. Building on the results we presented in 2017,
GNU Radio ZYBERSWAP EXCHANGE Berkeley SETI, Breakthrough Listen, the SETI Institute, and the GNU Radio community collaborated to host a hackathon at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California last week. HCRO is home to the
data analysis PEGONETWORK EXCHANGES Breakthrough Listen generates huge amounts of data, particularly from the two main radio telescopes where we're doing routine observations, Green Bank and Parkes (and we'll be generating even more once we begin routine
IRD EXCHANGE Back in March last year, we reported the serendipitous detection of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB 180301) during our Breakthrough Listen observations at the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Australia. We are pleased
STARSHARKS EXCHANGES We have just released a short AAS Research Note on a search for technosignatures from asteroid (514017) 2015 BZ509 (aka BZ509). While we didn't find any candidate signals, we'll be searching a selection
ONIGIRI EXCHANGES We've just released a new research paper on a deep learning alternative to traditional SETI algorithms. At Breakthrough Listen, we filter candidate signals by their localization on the sky. At the Green Bank
HOLYHELD EXCHANGE In 1964, Nikolai Kardashev proposed three levels of alien societies: Type I societies use the energy equivalent to all of the starlight falling on their planet, Type II societies the energy of an
RAISE ENTERTAINMENT TICKET EXCHANGE Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most mysterious classes of objects in the Universe. They originate outside our Galaxy, only last for around a millisecond, and can release as much energy
EPIC COIN EXCHANGE BSRC announces the availability of Breakthrough Listen Automated Planet Finder data on Boyajian's Star On 26 December 2018, the Breakthrough Listen team published “The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Searching Boyajian’s
APF GPS EXCHANGE On the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley SETI Research Center, we're dedicated to making as much of our data publicly available as we can. The files from our observations with the Green
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