Tabby ’s sensation remains as complex and mystifying as when it was firstpresentedover a year ago , and while there ’s no grounds of an " exotic megastructure " around it , people are still very concerned in what ’s get on .
astronomer from UC Berkley will use the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia to look for artificial signals from the pesky star , technically get it on as KIC 8462852 .
“ The Green Bank Telescope is the largest fully dirigible receiving set telescope on the planet , and it ’s the largest , most sensible scope that ’s capable of looking at Tabby ’s star topology given its positioning in the sky , ” enjoin Andrew Siemion , theater director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center , in astatement .
“ We ’ve deployed a wild novel SETI pawn that connects to that telescope , that can look at many gigahertz of bandwidth at the same time and many , many gazillion of different radio channels all at the same time so we can explore the radio spectrum very , very quick . ”
The investigation is part ofBreakthrough Listen , a project started last twelvemonth by Internet investor Yuri Milner . The program plans to survey the 1,000,000 closest superstar to Earth , covering 10 times more area of the sky , five time the radium spectrum , and 100 clip faster .
“ The Breakthrough Listen programme has the most powerful SETI equipment on the planet , and entree to the largest telescopes on the satellite , ” retain Siemion , who is also the co - theater director of Breakthrough Listen .
“ We can look at it with greater sensitivity and for a wider mountain range of signal types than any other experiment in the man . ”
There are three eight - hour observations planned over the next two months , which will gather up a humongous petabyte ( 1 million gigabytes ) of information over a hundred million radio receiver frequencies . The team does n’t really expect to observe aliens there , butits mysteriesdefinitely require more investigating .
“ Everyone , every SETI program scope , I intend every astronomer that has any sort of telescope in any wavelength that can see Tabby ’s star has look at it , ” he added .
“ It ’s been looked at with Hubble , it ’s been depend at with Keck , it ’s been looked at in the infrared frequency and radio receiver and high energy , and every possible thing you’re able to envisage , let in a whole range ofSETI experiments . Nothing has been found . ”
Tabby ’s whizz was first reported by adjunct professor Tabetha Boyajian ( for who it is named ) in September 2015 after being flagged by citizen scientist for its unusual dips in starlight . Subsequent analysis have not provided any conclusive answers so all we know now is that KIC 8462852 is a star topology like no other .
