The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection. (23rd June 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection. (23rd June 2021)
- Main Title:
- The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection
- Authors:
- Czech, Daniel
Isaacson, Howard
Pearce, Logan
Cox, Tyler
Sheikh, Sofia Z.
Brzycki, Bryan
Buchner, Sarah
Croft, Steve
DeBoer, David
DeMarines, Julia
Drew, Jamie
Gajjar, Vishal
Lacki, Brian C.
Lebofsky, Matt
MacMahon, David H. E.
Ng, Cherry
de Pater, Imke
Price, Danny C.
Siemion, Andrew P. V.
Van Rooyen, Ruby
Pete Worden, S. - Abstract:
- Abstract: 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. By subscribing to raw voltage data streams, Breakthrough Listen will be able to beamform commensally anywhere within the field of view during primary science observations. The survey will be conducted with unprecedented speed by forming and processing 64 coherent beams simultaneously, allowing the observation of several million objects within a few years. Both coherent and incoherent observing modes are planned. We present the list of desired sources for observation and explain how these sources were selected from the Gaia DR2 catalog. Given observations planned by MeerKAT's primary telescope users, we discuss their effects on the commensal survey and propose a commensal observing strategy in response. Finally, we outline our proposed approach toward observing one million nearby stars and analyze expected observing progress in the coming years.
- Is Part Of:
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Volume 133:Number 1024(2021)
- Journal:
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Issue:
- Volume 133:Number 1024(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 133, Issue 1024 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 133
- Issue:
- 1024
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0133-1024-0000
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- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-23
- Subjects:
- Astronomy -- Periodicals
Astronomy
Periodicals
Periodicals
520.5 - Journal URLs:
- http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?JournalID=101605 ↗
http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1538-3873 ↗
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PASP/journal/ ↗
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00046280.html ↗
http://www.iop.org/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1088/1538-3873/abf329 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0004-6280
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