Colloq Abstract - Tremblay
September 22, 2023
11:00am Mountain
Chenoa Tremblay (SETI Institute)
COSMIC: First 6-months of commensal observing with the VLA
Abstract
Within the fields of astrobiology, planetary science, and radio astronomy there are teams around the world constantly looking for signs that life exists on other planets than Earth. The search for complex life through technosignatures, observational manifestations of technology, aims to constrain the prevalence and distribution of potential of technologically advanced life in the Universe. Significant advances in real-time data analysis, driven by the reduced costs of computation, have led to the development of the Commensal Open-Source Multi-mode Interferometer Cluster (COSMIC) on the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, USA. In this presentation, I will provide an update on what we have learned in the first 6-months of commensal observing with the VLA and some of our first results.
Local Host: Lorant Sjouwerman
