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...
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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...
View ArticleDeeper 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 radio...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleSETI observations of asteroid BZ509
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...
View Article1327 Star Analysis and Public Data Release
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...
View ArticleFRB 180301: Astrophysical, aliens or anthropogenic?
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...
View ArticleVintage telescope rebooted in the hunt for FRBs
My colleagues Adam Deller and Chris Flynn have just published a Nature Astronomy article about the upgrades we are doing to Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope. “A cost-efficient overhaul of the...
View ArticleWe asked astronomers: are we alone in the Universe? The answer was...
The Conversation have just released a podcast that I’m featured in: about the Breakthrough Listen program, Parkes, and whether there is Life Beyond Earth.
View ArticleBreakthrough Listen in IEEE Spectrum
My feature article on Breakthrough Listen was just published in IEEE Spectrum. Here’s a few interesting things that happened while I was writing it: SETI turned 60, Arecibo collapsed, and a SETI...
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