Artist's impression (credit Danielle Futselaar / Breakthrough Listen) of the Green Bank Telescope gathering data on the center of the Milky Way. The inset image shows the black hole at our Galaxy's center, and a nearby candidate (unconfirmed) pulsar.
Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen have published new results from the Breakthrough Listen Galactic Center Survey, one of the most sensitive radio searches ever conducted for pulsars toward the dynamically complex central region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The study, led by recent PhD graduate Dr. Karen I. Perez has been published in The Astrophysical Journal.
You can read more about the search in a press release from Columbia University, and download the accompanying artwork (Credit: Breakthrough Listen / Danielle Futselaar).
If you have the requisite technical background, we invite you to read the paper, and to download the datasets (NB: the individual files are between 3 and 8 TB in size) if you wish to explore them or to perform your own analyses.
Much of our software is publicly available, including blimpy, a tool for loading filterbank, hdf5, and raw format data files, turboSETI, a tool for performing Doppler drift searches, and SPANDAK, a tool for searching for dispersed transient signals.