Podcaster: Beth Johnson, Franck Marchis, and Simon Steel (alternate hosts); Guest: Megan Grace Li
Title: SETI Live – Drifting Signals: New Boundaries for Radio Technosignatures
Organization: SETI Institute
Link: https://sites.libsyn.com/462636
Description:
Recorded 30 November 2023.
In a new study published in the Astronomical Journal, researchers used the known population of exoplanets to set better thresholds for planetary effects on signals from ETIs (extraterrestrial intelligences). Megan Grace Li, a Ph.D. student at UCLA in UCLA SETI, conducted this research as a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates intern in the Breakthrough Listen project at the Berkeley SETI Research Center.
Join Megan as she chats with Beth Johnson about her work and what it means for the future of SETI searches.
Bio: Beth Johnson is a communications specialist and social media manager with a degree in physics and master’s work in planetary science. She specializes in meteor showers, icy moons, and anything with volcanoes.
Franck Marchis is a senior planetary astronomer and chair of the exoplanet group at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute and Chief Scientific Officer and Founder at Unistellar. He has dedicated his work to the study of our solar system, specifically the search for asteroids with moons, using mainly ground-based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics.
Simon Steel is Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research at the SETI Institute. As an observational astrophysicist, he specialized in optical spectrophotometry, with an interest in the star formation histories of galaxies.
Megan Grace Li, a Ph.D. student at UCLA in UCLA SETI
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