Breakthrough Listen Radio Observations of Transiting Exoplanet Systems 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
GBT Re-Analyzing Low-Energy ('Smudgy') Bursts in a Breakthrough Listen Observation of FRB 121102 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
GBT Detection of a new magnetar candidate across 4 - 11 GHz with Breakthrough Listen at GBT 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
GBT Breakthrough Listen observations of the “Random Transiter” HD 139139 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
data analysis Open data 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
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
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