Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures Towards the Kepler-160 System

2020/06/22 by Karen Perez, Karen I. Perez, Perez, Karen +27
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life #astro-ph.EP #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.13789

arxiv created 2020/06/22 · arxiv updated 2020/06/30

Abstract

We have conducted a search for artificial radio emission associated with the Kepler-160 system following the report of the discovery of the Earth-like planet candidate KOI-456.04 on 2020 June 4 (arXiv:1905.09038v2). Our search targeted both narrowband (2.97 Hz) drifting (± 4 Hz s^-1) and wideband pulsed (5 ms at all bandwidths) artificially-dispersed technosignatures using the turboSETI (arXiv:1709.03491v2) and SPANDAK pipelines, respectively, from 1-8 GHz. No candidates were identified above an upper limit Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of 5.9 × 10¹⁴ W for narrowband emission and 7.3 × 10¹² W for wideband emission. Here we briefly describe our observations and data reduction procedure.

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