Date: 25/04/2017 13:39:32
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1057118
Subject: Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life

Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: First Results

Breakthrough Listen — the largest ever research program aimed at finding evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth — has released its eleven events ranked highest for significance as well as summary data analysis results.

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Date: 25/04/2017 21:36:50
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1057182
Subject: re: Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life

Tau.Neutrino said:


Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: First Results

Breakthrough Listen — the largest ever research program aimed at finding evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth — has released its eleven events ranked highest for significance as well as summary data analysis results.

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> the largest ever research program aimed at finding evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth

Not largest ever. Nowhere near as big as SETI@home. Breakthrough listen is looking specifically at stars.

The one to watch is HIP66704, with a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 3377 >> 1. The other ten all have SNR below 500. The following graph is the signal from HIP66704.

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