Exciting news: the HARPS exoplanet hunter team have discovered a new, Earth-like exoplanet orbiting around the star Ross 128, one of our closest neighbors. This newly discovered ‘exo-Earth’, designated Ross 128b, is particularly remarkable as it is thought to have surface temperatures similar to here on Earth. Curiously, this is the second time this year Ross 128 has been in the news. In May 2017, an intriguing signal in the direction of Ross 128 was detected at Arecibo. In July, we conducted follow-up observations with…Continue Reading “SETI observations of ‘exo-Earth’ Ross 128b”
Earlier this year, we submitted a paper on our analysis of 692 stars (press release). We are happy to announce that it has now been accepted for publication in AAS. For those of you who want to read all the technical details, you can delve into the 13-page PDF on arXiv:1709.03491.
The team at Berkeley SETI wrote a technical paper describing the super-wide-bandwidth Breakthrough Listen instrument at the Green Bank Telescope. It has now been accepted to the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and a preprint is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06024.