Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework
@article{Sheikh2021AnalysisOT, title={Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework}, author={Sofia Z. Sheikh and Shane Smith and Danny C. Price and David DeBoer and Brian C. Lacki and Daniel J. Czech and Steve Croft and Vishal Gajjar and Howard T. Isaacson and Matt Lebofsky and David Macmahon and Cherry Ng and Karen I. Perez and Andrew P. V. Siemion and Claire Isabel Webb and Andrew Zic and Jamie Drew and Simon P. Worden}, journal={Nature Astronomy}, year={2021} }
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 SETI project observed Proxima Centauri with the Parkes ‘Murriyang’ radio telescope. These data contained a narrowband signal with characteristics broadly consistent with a technosignature near 982 MHz (‘blc1’). Here we present a procedure for the analysis of potential technosignatures, in the context of the…
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