Hey everyone!
\nI wanted to start a papers thread and build on it, and hope others share as well, papers to gain domain knowledge. I have no domain knowledge in this area so I have downloaded papers that appeared to be relevant after reading their abstracts. I'll be reading these over the coming days and commenting more as I go through all of them. Hope this helps!
\nResearch Papers:
\nThe Breakthrough Listen Search For Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center I - A line-of-sight towards the Galactic Center (GC) offers the largest number of potentially habitable systems of any direction in the sky. The Breakthrough Listen program is undertaking the most sensitive and deepest targeted SETI surveys towards the GC. Here, we outline our observing strategies with Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Parkes telescope to conduct 600 hours of deep observations across 0.7--93 GHz.
Black Swans in Astronomical Data - Accordingly, we here look ahead and aim to provide a statistical framework for interpreting such events and providing guidance to future observations, under the basic premise that the phenomenon in question stochastically repeat at some unknown, constant rate, λ.
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection - New radio telescope arrays offer unique opportunities for large-scale commensal SETI surveys. Ethernet-based architectures are allowing multiple users to access telescope data simultaneously by means of multicast Ethernet subscriptions. Breakthrough Listen will take advantage of this by conducting a commensal SETI survey on the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Searching for Technosignatures in Observations of TESS Targets of Interest - In this work, we extend the Breakthrough Listen (BL) search for extraterrestrial intelligence to include targeted searches of stars identified by TESS as potential exoplanet hosts. We report on 113 30-min cadence observations collected for 28 targets selected from the TESS Input Catalog (TIC) from among those identified as containing signatures of transiting planets.
Re-Analysis of Breakthrough Listen Observations of FRB 121102: Polarization Properties of Eight New Spectrally Narrow Bursts - We report polarization properties for eight narrowband bursts from FRB 121102 that have been re-detected in a high-frequency (4-8 GHz) Breakthrough Listen observation with the Green Bank Telescope, originally taken on 2017 August 26.
Which Stars can see Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet? - We use the TESS Input Catalog and data from Gaia DR2 to identify the closest stars that could see Earth as a transiting exoplanet: We identify 1,004 Main Sequence stars within 100 parsecs, of which 508 guarantee a minimum 10-hour long observation of Earth's transit.
Narrow-Band Signal Localization for SETI on Noisy Synthetic Spectrogram Data - In this work, we approach this problem using convolutional neural networks (CNN) as a computationally efficient method for localizing signals in synthetic observations resembling data collected by Breakthrough Listen using the Green Bank Telescope. We generate two synthetic datasets, the first with exactly one signal at various SNR levels and the second with exactly two signals, one of which represents RFI.
The Recent Developmental Status of SNEGRAF: a Web-Based Gravitational Wave Signal Analyzer
Hey everyone!
\nI wanted to start a papers thread and build on it, and hope others share as well, papers to gain domain knowledge. I have no domain knowledge in this area so I have downloaded papers that appeared to be relevant after reading their abstracts. I'll be reading these over the coming days and commenting more as I go through all of them. Hope this helps!
\nResearch Papers:
\nThe Breakthrough Listen Search For Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center I - A line-of-sight towards the Galactic Center (GC) offers the largest number of potentially habitable systems of any direction in the sky. The Breakthrough Listen program is undertaking the most sensitive and deepest targeted SETI surveys towards the GC. Here, we outline our observing strategies with Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Parkes telescope to conduct 600 hours of deep observations across 0.7--93 GHz.
Black Swans in Astronomical Data - Accordingly, we here look ahead and aim to provide a statistical framework for interpreting such events and providing guidance to future observations, under the basic premise that the phenomenon in question stochastically repeat at some unknown, constant rate, λ.
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection - New radio telescope arrays offer unique opportunities for large-scale commensal SETI surveys. Ethernet-based architectures are allowing multiple users to access telescope data simultaneously by means of multicast Ethernet subscriptions. Breakthrough Listen will take advantage of this by conducting a commensal SETI survey on the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Searching for Technosignatures in Observations of TESS Targets of Interest - In this work, we extend the Breakthrough Listen (BL) search for extraterrestrial intelligence to include targeted searches of stars identified by TESS as potential exoplanet hosts. We report on 113 30-min cadence observations collected for 28 targets selected from the TESS Input Catalog (TIC) from among those identified as containing signatures of transiting planets.
Re-Analysis of Breakthrough Listen Observations of FRB 121102: Polarization Properties of Eight New Spectrally Narrow Bursts - We report polarization properties for eight narrowband bursts from FRB 121102 that have been re-detected in a high-frequency (4-8 GHz) Breakthrough Listen observation with the Green Bank Telescope, originally taken on 2017 August 26.
Which Stars can see Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet? - We use the TESS Input Catalog and data from Gaia DR2 to identify the closest stars that could see Earth as a transiting exoplanet: We identify 1,004 Main Sequence stars within 100 parsecs, of which 508 guarantee a minimum 10-hour long observation of Earth's transit.
Narrow-Band Signal Localization for SETI on Noisy Synthetic Spectrogram Data - In this work, we approach this problem using convolutional neural networks (CNN) as a computationally efficient method for localizing signals in synthetic observations resembling data collected by Breakthrough Listen using the Green Bank Telescope. We generate two synthetic datasets, the first with exactly one signal at various SNR levels and the second with exactly two signals, one of which represents RFI.
The Recent Developmental Status of SNEGRAF: a Web-Based Gravitational Wave Signal Analyzer
There's some relevant info in The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Public Data, Formats, Reduction and Archiving too although we've simplified the data formats somewhat for this competition and are just providing small ranges in frequency extracted from the GBT filterbank files, and not in the custom formats described in this paper.
", "rawMarkdown": "There's some relevant info in [The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Public Data, Formats, Reduction and Archiving](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.07391.pdf) too although we've simplified the data formats somewhat for this competition and are just providing small ranges in frequency extracted from the GBT filterbank files, and not in the custom formats described in this paper.", "votes": 2, "replies": [ { "id": 1302663, "postDate": "2021-05-11T16:51:16.030Z", "content": "@stevecroft thanks for sharing. I saw a lot of papers and had to not overwhelm everyone 😄
", "rawMarkdown": "@stevecroft thanks for sharing. I saw a lot of papers and had to not overwhelm everyone 😄", "votes": 1 } ] }, { "id": 1302213, "postDate": "2021-05-11T12:45:34.150Z", "content": "Thanks Charlie, I will read through these over the coming days as well and share any relevant insights I come across.
", "rawMarkdown": "Thanks Charlie, I will read through these over the coming days as well and share any relevant insights I come across. " }, { "id": 1301932, "postDate": "2021-05-11T10:15:05.567Z", "content": "can I also join
", "rawMarkdown": "can I also join \n" } ], "comments": [ { "id": 1302589, "author_name": "Steve Croft", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2021-05-11T16:04:31.933000", "content": "There's some relevant info in The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Public Data, Formats, Reduction and Archiving too although we've simplified the data formats somewhat for this competition and are just providing small ranges in frequency extracted from the GBT filterbank files, and not in the custom formats described in this paper.
", "votes": 2, "replies": [ { "id": 1302663, "author_name": "Charlie Craine", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2021-05-11T16:51:16.030000", "content": "@stevecroft thanks for sharing. I saw a lot of papers and had to not overwhelm everyone 😄
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 1302213, "author_name": "KenTurner", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2021-05-11T12:45:34.150000", "content": "Thanks Charlie, I will read through these over the coming days as well and share any relevant insights I come across.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1301932, "author_name": "Kumar", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2021-05-11T10:15:05.567000", "content": "can I also join
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "1301065": "Hey everyone!\n\nI wanted to start a papers thread and build on it, and hope others share as well, papers to gain domain knowledge. I have no domain knowledge in this area so I have downloaded papers that appeared to be relevant after reading their abstracts. I'll be reading these over the coming days and commenting more as I go through all of them. Hope this helps!\n\n**Research Papers:**\n\n- [The Breakthrough Listen Search For Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center I](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14148) - A line-of-sight towards the Galactic Center (GC) offers the largest number of potentially habitable systems of any direction in the sky. The Breakthrough Listen program is undertaking the most sensitive and deepest targeted SETI surveys towards the GC. Here, we outline our observing strategies with Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Parkes telescope to conduct 600 hours of deep observations across 0.7--93 GHz.\n\n- [Black Swans in Astronomical Data](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07693) - Accordingly, we here look ahead and aim to provide a statistical framework for interpreting such events and providing guidance to future observations, under the basic premise that the phenomenon in question stochastically repeat at some unknown, constant rate, λ. \n\n- [The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16250) - New radio telescope arrays offer unique opportunities for large-scale commensal SETI surveys. Ethernet-based architectures are allowing multiple users to access telescope data simultaneously by means of multicast Ethernet subscriptions. Breakthrough Listen will take advantage of this by conducting a commensal SETI survey on the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.\n\n- [The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Searching for Technosignatures in Observations of TESS Targets of Interest](https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11137) - In this work, we extend the Breakthrough Listen (BL) search for extraterrestrial intelligence to include targeted searches of stars identified by TESS as potential exoplanet hosts. We report on 113 30-min cadence observations collected for 28 targets selected from the TESS Input Catalog (TIC) from among those identified as containing signatures of transiting planets.\n\n- [Re-Analysis of Breakthrough Listen Observations of FRB 121102: Polarization Properties of Eight New Spectrally Narrow Bursts](https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05172) - We report polarization properties for eight narrowband bursts from FRB 121102 that have been re-detected in a high-frequency (4-8 GHz) Breakthrough Listen observation with the Green Bank Telescope, originally taken on 2017 August 26. \n\n- [Which Stars can see Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09766) - We use the TESS Input Catalog and data from Gaia DR2 to identify the closest stars that could see Earth as a transiting exoplanet: We identify 1,004 Main Sequence stars within 100 parsecs, of which 508 guarantee a minimum 10-hour long observation of Earth's transit. \n\n- [Narrow-Band Signal Localization for SETI on Noisy Synthetic Spectrogram Data](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04362) - In this work, we approach this problem using convolutional neural networks (CNN) as a computationally efficient method for localizing signals in synthetic observations resembling data collected by Breakthrough Listen using the Green Bank Telescope. We generate two synthetic datasets, the first with exactly one signal at various SNR levels and the second with exactly two signals, one of which represents RFI.\n\n- [Opportunities to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09639) \n\n- [The Recent Developmental Status of SNEGRAF: a Web-Based Gravitational Wave Signal Analyzer](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08571) ", "1302589": "There's some relevant info in [The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Public Data, Formats, Reduction and Archiving](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.07391.pdf) too although we've simplified the data formats somewhat for this competition and are just providing small ranges in frequency extracted from the GBT filterbank files, and not in the custom formats described in this paper.", "1302213": "Thanks Charlie, I will read through these over the coming days as well and share any relevant insights I come across. ", "1301932": "can I also join \n" } }