New Parkes instrument paper published in PASA We're pleased to announce that our journal article detailing the Breakthrough Listen data recorder at the Parkes radio telescope has been published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. The Breakthrough-Parkes
SKA SETI on the Square Kilometre Array The Square Kilometre Array is a huge international effort to create a gigantic telescope from two arrays of many individual antennas located in South Africa and Australia. The enormous collecting area of the
A SETI pilot survey with the Nançay Radio Telescope The Kraus-type 100m-class Nançay Radio Telescope (NRT) [1,2], depicted here (credits : Max Planck Institute) and located 200 km south of Paris (France), will soon be the host of a pilot SETI program
Astrobiologist Rebecca Rapf presented with the inaugural Maggie C. Turnbull Early Career Award Rebecca Rapf, a postdoctoral scholar in physical chemistry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is the first recipient honored with the newly created Maggie C. Turnbull Award for community service. Rapf was selected
Deeper Wider Faster SETI Over the next two days, we will be participating in some exciting coordinated observations as part of the Deeper, Wider, Faster (DWF) collaboration. For a few hours of our time on the Parkes
ABC Stargazing Live Last week, Breakthrough Listen participated in the Australia Broadcasting Corporation's Stargazing Live TV show (for those of you in Australia, you can still catch the episode on ABC iView). The show was jam-packed
Trip to Parkes - April 2018 Last week Dave, Danny, and I met up at the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales to catch up on many fronts: OS upgrades, server maintenance, signal input calibration, inspecting the air conditioning
FRB Breakthrough Listen detects a new Fast Radio Burst Detection of FRB 180301 with the Breakthrough Listen backend instrument at the Parkes Radio Telescope. The top panel shows the de-dispersed pulse while the bottom panel shows the frequency structure with the pulse
GBT Interplanetary Teslas and SETI The recent launch of Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket got the Berkeley SETI team thinking: how detectable would a spacefaring Tesla be to the Breakthrough Listen instruments
FRB FRB121102: Mysterious and magnetic The source of the strange repeating pulses of radio emission from Fast Radio Burst 121102, observed in new detail earlier this year by the Breakthrough Listen science team at Berkeley SETI Research Center,
oumuamua Silence from 'Oumuamua We've completed our analysis of 8 hours of Green Bank Telescope observations of "interstellar visitor" 'Oumuamua. Billions of channels, covering the frequency range 1 - 12 GHz, were scanned, over an
'Oumuamua observations in 3,2,1... As indicated in our press release, we are excited to be focusing our observational efforts on ‘Oumuamua, the mysterious interloper recently spotted moving rapidly through the solar system. Our ‘Oumuamua observation campaign will
GBT SETI observations of 'exo-Earth' Ross 128b Exciting news: the HARPS exoplanet hunter team have discovered a new, Earth-like exoplanet orbiting around the star Ross 128, one of our closest neighbors. This newly discovered 'exo-Earth', designated Ross 128b, is particularly
GBT Observations of 692 Nearby Stars with the GBT Earlier this year, we submitted a paper on our analysis of 692 stars (press release). We are happy to announce that it has now been accepted for publication in AAS. For those of
FRB Detection of FRB 121102 at C-band using BL@GBT On Saturday, August 26 at 13:51:44 UTC we initiated observations of the well-known repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 [Spitler et al., Nature, 531, 7593 202-205, 2016] using the Breakthrough Listen
Now that’s some serious bandwidth The team at Berkeley SETI wrote a technical paper describing the super-wide-bandwidth Breakthrough Listen instrument at the Green Bank Telescope. It has now been accepted to the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society
arecibo Ross 128? We're on it. Listen investigates star after claim of possible signal. There has been a lot of press attention in the last week to mysterious signals, seen by Prof. Abel Mendez at Arecibo Observatory, that appear
Breakthrough Listen's Top 11 Breakthrough Listen - the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe – has released its 11 events ranked highest for significance as well as data analysis results. It is considered unlikely
Tabby's star dims again Tabby's Star has started another dip. Probably not alien megastructures, but we're working on follow-up observations to try to constrain some of the other theories. The Atlantic has a good writeup.
