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2021RNAAS...5..248S - Research Notes of the AAS, 5, 248 (2021/October-0)

No Redetections of blc1 in 39 hr of Reobservation Campaigns of Proxima Centauri.

SHEIKH S.Z., SMITH S., PRICE D., LEBOFSKY M., SIEMION A., CORDES J.M., GAJJAR V., DREW J. and WORDEN S.P.

Abstract (from CDS):

In 2019 April, radio observations of Proxima Centauri were performed with the Ultra-Wideband Low Receiver on the Parkes Telescope. A narrowband radio search of these data revealed a technosignature signal-of-interest reported as “blc1” at 982.002 MHz. After the initial discovery of blc1 in the data in 2020 October, we performed a series of reobservations over the next 6 months, totaling 39 hr of on-sky time. We do not redetect blc1, or find any other signals-of-interest, within ±1 MHz of 982.002 MHz in this data set. Taken in context, this null result implies that blc1 was transient radio frequency interference, makes it less consistent with a periodic transmission, and makes it less consistent with interstellar scintillation.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Radio astronomy - Technosignatures - Search for extraterrestrial intelligence - Astrobiology

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