Breakthrough Listen and SETI@Home Search for ET

Breakthrough Listen and SETI@Home Search for ET

Is Anybody Out There? Breakthrough Listen and SETI@home Search for ET Dan Werthimer University of California, Berkeley http://seti.berkeley.edu Drake Equation N=R fs fp ne fl fi fc L N = number of communicating civilizations in our galaxy Jupiter’s Moon: Europa . Sub-Crust Ocean SETI before CASPER Porno in space: FUNDED! Signal Types 1. Artifact (radio, radar, ~TV, ????) 2. Deliberate (easy to decode, pictures, language lessons) First civilization we contact is likely to be a billion years ahead of us. (ray norris, 2002) First Radio SETI • Nikola Tesla (1899) – Announces “coherent signals from Mars” • Guglielmo Marconi (1920) – Strange signals from ET • Frank Drake (1960) – Project Ozma – one channel, 1420-1420.4 MHz BERKELEY SETI RESEARCH CENTER BERKELEY ASTRONOMY CollaboratorsDEPARTMENT Berkeley SETI Group Zuhra Abdurashidova, David Anderson, Jeff Cobb, Steve Croft, David DeBoer, Matt Dexter, Emilio Enriquez, Walt Fitelson, Griffin Foster, Vishal Gajjar, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Howard Isaacson, Eric Korpela, Matt Lebofsky, Dave MacMahon, Danny Price, Chris Schodt, Isaac Shivvers, Andrew Siemion, Nate Tellis, Ed Wishnow, Dan Werthimer Breakthrough Foundation, NSF , NASA, Donors Keysight, Intel, Seagate, Xilinx Berkeley SETI Research Center Experiments • Radio SETI – SERENDIP VI (Arecibo) – SERENDIP VI (Greenbank) – LOFAR SETI – GBT Targeted Time Domain SETI – SETI@home – Astropulse • Optical/IR SETI – Spectral Search for Laser Lines from KOI – Searches for ET artifacts in light curves – IR SETI with the Infrared Spatial Interferometer – IR photodetector system • Panchromatic SETI Technosignatures… Microwave Window Searching Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum Low Frequency Optical Telescopes Infrared Spatial Green Bank Arecibo Array Interferometer Telescope Using multiple telescopes, we can search across the electromagnetic spectrum for indicators of advanced technology. NAIC Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico Breakthough Prize Foundation “LISTEN” SETI Project • $100M over 10 years • Starting with Green Bank and Parkes Radio Telescopes • Lick Observatory (optical SETI) • 1,000,000 stars; 1000 galaxies; galactic plane; all sky • New instrumentation: 10 GHz bandwidth (20 billion channels) • SETI@home participants will analyze interesting parts of data • Open source data, hardware, software, gpuware, gateware The Breakthrough Listen Initiative: Telescopes Automated Planet Finder (Lick Observatory) • Search for extremely narrow emission lines from artificial lasers • Extremely high resolution “Levy Spectrometer” 374 - 950 nm, λ/Δλ= 105 Green Bank Telescope (Green Bank, WV) • Radio search focusing on targeted and raster observations • Nearly continuous frequency coverage 300 MHz - 100 GHz • Flexible IF system can deliver up to 10 GHz dual-pol analog bandwidth Parkes Telescope (New South Wales, Australia) • Radio search focusing on surveys • Southern hemisphere location gives great access to galactic plane • Multi-beam receiver allows very efficient L-band (1.2 - 1.5 GHz) sky surveys Meerkat Commensal SETI – 64 beams The Breakthrough Listen Initiative: 10 years - 108 dollars 1 Million Stars 1000 Galaxies 1 day of Breakthrough Listen = 1 year of any previous search http://breakthroughinitiatives.org LISTEN SETI Data Rates Listen Data Products (Open Data) • Candidate Signals: raw data [voltage(t)] • Voltage Surveys (Parkes Galactic Plane survey) • SETI@home raw data (mostly Southern Sky Survey) • High Spectral Resolution Data (SETI, Galactic Structure and Evolution) • High Time Cadence Spectral Data (Pulsars,Fast Radio Bursts,Primordial Black Holes,Transients,SETI) Public Data Access and Outreach • Web Site, GitHub, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube • Data Analysis Tutorials and Example Software • APF, GBT, Parkes, example data sets (Voyager 1…) • Data Analysis Challenges and Projects BROADBAND EMISSION An example… Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) ✴ Modern radio communication largely broadband ✴ Wide bandwidths permit rich information content Power Spectrum Auto Correlation Arecibo Observatory High performance data storage silo UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab Public Volunteers SETI@Home SETI@home Breakthrough Pipeline Off Example Cluster On Off On Off Cluster On Public Participation Scientific Supercomputing aka “Distributed Computing” aka “edge resource aggregation” Projects • Astronomy – SETI@home (Berkeley) – Astropulse (Berkeley) – Einstein@home: gravitational pulsar search (Caltech,…) – PlanetQuest (SETI Institute) – Stardust@home (Berkeley, Univ. Washinton,…) • Earth science – Climateprediction.net (Oxford) • Biology/Medicine – Folding@home, Predictor@home (Stanford, Scripts) – FightAIDSathome: virtual drug discovery • Physics – LHC@home (Cern) • Other – Web indexing/search – Internet Resource mapping (UC Berkeley) Rosetta Screensaver Thinking@Home Stardust@home... Stardust (NASA) Stardust January 2009 19 Citizen Science Projects • SETI@home and Astropulse (UC Berkeley) • Stardust@home (UC Berkeley) • SetiQuest (Seti Institute) • Galaxy Zoo (Galaxy Classification) • Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count (1900) • Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Monitor Network • Clickworkers (mars crater identficiation - NASA) • Ebird, NestWatch, FeederWatch, Urban Birds (Cornell Univ.) • ParkScan (monitor San Francisco Parks) • ScienceForCitizens.net • ENERGY@home Infrared Spatial Interferometer heterodyne detection at 27 THz w/ CO2 laser LOs 2008 @ Mt. Wilson Mt. Wilson, CA 3 telescope system 4,8,12m early 2006 Currently ~35m triangular baselines Simultaneous Digital Backends Piggyback, Commensal, Sky Surveys Pulsar Spectrometer Analog Power Splitters Galactic (ARECIBO Multibeam) Spectrometer or Signal Extra Galactic Splitter Spectrometer Digital Data Splitter SETI (FAST Multibeam) Spectrometer Baseband Data Recorder SETI and FRB search at Arecibo/GBT SERENDIP VI and ALFABURST Lorimer, Chennamangalam, Armour, Karastergiou, Golpayegani, Rajwade, Werthimer,…. Serendip VI & ALFABURST UCB, WVU, Oxford, Arecibo, GBT FAST 500 meter telescope Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) m 100 ete rs FAST 500 m (2016.5) GBT 100 m Arecibo 300 m HERA Array 352 x 14 meter dishes All Sky All the Time (low duty cycle search) • 1973 Troitsky et al, Sporadic Radiation Resulting from Technological Activity of Extraterrestrial Civilization (Baku, USSR) (cross correlation of several dipoles) • Phase Array Feeds on the Ground (Mike Garret, Ron Ekers) • IR/OSETI All Sky Workshop - 2016 • Radio All Workshop – 2017 ?? PANORAMIC-SETI: Pulsed All-sky Near-infrared Optical SETI PANO-SETI Shelley Wright, Paul Horowitz, Jerome Maire, Frank Drake, Eliot Gillum, Andrew Howard, Geoffrey Marcy, Andrew Siemion, Remington Stone, Richard Treffers, Dan Werthimer Avalanche Photo Diode Arrays visible, near-IR Optical Multi-pixel photon counting (MPPC) Detectors by Hamamatsu (400-1000) - 3mm Near-infrared (900 – 1700 nm) Phased Array Feed – 64 beams All Sky All the Time Radio SETI (7 PAF’s on the ground – Ron Ekers) • 94 dual pol elements/PAF • Total elements 1316 • 10 sqm area • 3 degree beams • FoV 100x100 degrees • Form 1000 simultaneous beams • Sited in the worlds most RFI quiet site • Exquisite rfi monitor! 4m • Provide copy of rfi signal for adaptive cancelling • Track satellites across sky 71 | OSS - Ron Ekers Embrace: 20K/10K elements, 160m^2, 500-1500 MHz HERA Array 352 x 14 meter dishes Moores Law – Instruments using FPGA’s: 2X per year (1,000,000 over 20 years) ops or 0.1c galactic exploration Use Sun As Gravitational Lens Place camera at focus 100 billion km Read License Plates on Extrasolar Planet Summary and Conclusion No ET so far Still working on it SETI HAIKU Searching for life Answers are revealed About ourselves Paula Cook, Duke University One million earthlings Bounded by optimism Leave their PC’s on Dan Seidner Casper Commandments Thou Shalt Share thy Knowledge Thou Shalt Help thy Neighbor Casperite Thou Shalt Covet thy Ethernet to Connect Everything Switches are Free (negative?).

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