A VERITAS/Breakthrough Listen Search for Optical Technosignatures
- Acharyya, Atreya
- Adams, Colin
- Archer, Avery
- Bangale, Priyadarshini
- Batista, Pedro
- Benbow, Wystan
- Brill, Aryeh
- Capasso, M
- Errando, Manel
- Falcone, Abraham
- Feng, Qi
- Finley, John
- Foote, Gregory
- Fortson, Lucy
- Furniss, Amy
- Griffin, Sean
- Hanlon, William
- Hanna, David
- Hervet, Olivier
- Hinrichs, Claire
- Hoang, John
- Holder, Jamie
- Humensky, T.
- Jin, Weidong
- Kaaret, Philip
- Kertzman, Mary P.
- Kherlakian, Maria
- Kieda, David
- Kleiner, Tobias
- Korzoun, Nikolas
- Kumar, Sajan
- Lang, Mark
- Lundy, Matthew
- Maier, Gernot
- McGrath, Conor
- Millard, Matthew
- Miller, Hayden
- Millis, John
- Mooney, Connor
- Moriarty, Patrick
- Mukherjee, Reshmi
- O'Brien, Stephan
- Ong, Rene A.
- Pohl, Martin
- Pueschel, Elisa
- Quinn, John
- Ragan, Kenneth J.
- Reynolds, Paul
- Ribeiro, Deivid
- Roache, Emmet Thomas
- Ryan, Jamie
- Sadeh, Iftach
- Saha, Lab
- Santander, Marcos
- Sembroski, Glenn H
- Shang, Ruo
- Tak, Donggeun
- Talluri, Anjana
- Tucci, James
- Vazquez, Nico
- Williams, David
- Wong, Sam
- Woo, Jooyun
- DeBoer, David
- Isaacson, Howard
- de Pater, Imke
- Price, Danny
- Siemion, Andrew
DOIAbstract
The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is conducting a program using multiple telescopes around the world to search for "technosignatures": artificial transmitters of extraterrestrial origin from beyond our solar system. The VERITAS Collaboration joined this program in 2018, and provides the capability to search for one particular technosignature: optical pulses of a few nanoseconds duration detectable over interstellar distances. We report here on the analysis and results of dedicated VERITAS observations of Breakthrough Listen targets conducted in 2019 and 2020 and of archival VERITAS data collected since 2012. Thirty hours of dedicated observations of 136 targets and 249 archival observations of 140 targets were analyzed and did not reveal a...
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