Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures Towards the Kepler-160 System

Karen Perez; Bryan Brzycki; Vishal Gajjar; Howard Isaacson; Andrew Siemion; Steve Croft; David DeBoer; Matt Lebofsky; David H. E. MacMahon; Danny C. Price; Sofia Sheikh; Jamie Drew; S. Pete Worden

Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures Towards the Kepler-160 System

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2020-06-30 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Authors: Karen Perez , Bryan Brzycki , Vishal Gajjar , Howard Isaacson , Andrew Siemion , Steve Croft , David DeBoer , Matt Lebofsky , David H. E. MacMahon , Danny C. Price , Sofia Sheikh , Jamie Drew , S. Pete Worden

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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 ( $\pm 4$ 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 $5.9 \times 10^{14}$ W for narrowband emission and $7.3 \times 10^{12}$ W for wideband emission. Here we briefly describe our observations and data reduction procedure.

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@article{arxiv.2006.13789,
  title  = {Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures Towards the Kepler-160 System},
  author = {Karen Perez and Bryan Brzycki and Vishal Gajjar and Howard Isaacson and Andrew Siemion and Steve Croft and David DeBoer and Matt Lebofsky and David H. E. MacMahon and Danny C. Price and Sofia Sheikh and Jamie Drew and S. Pete Worden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.13789},
  year   = {2020}
}

Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures Towards the Kepler-160 System

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