Survey SETI

Image credit: Danielle Futselaar and Breakthrough Listen

Introduction

Papers

• The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Searching for Anomalous Lines In APOGEE Spectra (ALIAS) (Hand in prep)
• Technosignature Searches with Real-time Alert Brokers (Gallay+2025)
• Searching the SN 1987A SETI Ellipsoid with TESS (Cabrales+2024)
• The weird and the wonderful in our Solar System: Searching for serendipity in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Rogers+2024)
• The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Detection and Characterization of Anomalous Transits in Kepler Lightcurves (Zuckerman+2023)
• Signal Synchronization Strategies and Time Domain SETI with Gaia DR3 (Nilipour+2023)
• Real-Time Technosignature Strategies with SN 2023ixf (Davenport+2023)
• Searching the SETI Ellipsoid with Gaia (Davenport+2022)
• From Data to Software to Science with the Rubin Observatory LSST (Breivik+2022) - Section B.6.9
• Rubin Observatory LSST Transients and Variable Stars Roadmap (Hambleton+2022) - Section 2.3.3
• SETI in the Spatio-Temporal Survey Domain (Davenport 2019)
• SETI with LSST Whitepaper (in prep)

Projects

• LSST Solar System Science Collaboration: Technosignature Think Tank
• SETI Ellipsoid & timing-based approaches
• Outliers and unusual variability
• Anomalous Lines in APOGEE Spectra (ALIAS) & spectroscopic methods
• Changes in exoplanet transits over time
• Searches for interstellar objects and anomalous solar system objects
• SETI.news - Newsletter for SETI research
• Outreach projects, including Comic Con panels

Meetings & Workshops

• SETI with LSST 2023 (Seattle)
• LSST Solar System Science Collaboration, 2024 Readiness Sprint (Oxford)

Collaborators

We are fortunate to have collaborators and supporters at many institutions, including:

• Breakthrough Listen
• PSETI
• SETI Institute
• Oxford