BLIPSS — Breakthrough Listen Investigation for Periodic Spectral Signals — Cornell University + SETI Institute + breakthrough-listen collaboration. Lead akshay-suresh (Cornell graduate student), advisor vishal-gajjar.
Search design
- Telescope: Green Bank Telescope (GBT).
- Band: 4–8 GHz.
- Target: Galactic Center — dense stellar population maximizes line-of-sight count of potentially habitable systems and is a strategic beacon site for a galaxy-spanning civilization.
- Signal class: periodic spectral signals — trains of narrowband pulses (sub-FM-channel bandwidth, periodic temporal structure). Distinct from pulsars (broadband) and from classical continuous-wave (CW) narrowband SETI.
- Validation: algorithm recovers known pulsars with expected periodicities before being applied to production GBT scans.
Output
- Paper: Suresh et al., “A 4–8 GHz Galactic Center Search for Periodic Technosignatures,” accepted Astronomical Journal.
Related
- akshay-suresh · vishal-gajjar · steve-croft
- breakthrough-listen · seti-institute
- galactic-center · green-bank-telescope · periodic-spectral-signal
- src-seti-galactic-center-search-2025-07
- src-plasma-technosignature-scattering-2026 (Gajjar’s parallel work)
- src-brats-radio-technosignatures-2026-05 (broadband-leakage contrast)