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UCLA SETI uses the largest fully steerable telescope on Earth to search for evidence of civilizations in the Galaxy. They observe stars and their planetary systems at radio frequencies with the goal of detecting signals emitted by radio beacons or other powerful radio emitters. So far, they have observed 42,000 stars and detected over 64 million radio signals.
We help by identifying the most promising signals in their data. We classify signals by matching them to common classes of radio frequency interference (RFI). Classifications are then used to develop artificial intelligence tools to accelerate the search.
The Next-Generation Transit Survey working from the University of Warwick have been searching for transiting exoplanets around the brightest stars in the sky. We help by sifting through the observations flagged by the computers to search for hidden worlds that might have been missed in the NGTS team’s review.
Most of the planets in the dataset have likely been found already, but we provide secondary checking of the data as we might just be the first to find a new exoplanet not known before!
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