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Data from: A search for technosignatures from TRAPPIST-1, LHS 1140, and 10 planetary systems in the Kepler field with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15–1.73 GHz

Margot, Jean-Luc1; Pinchuk, Pavlo2; Greenberg, Adam H.1; Ayalde, Thomas1; Bloxham, Chad1; Boddu, Arjun1; Chinchilla-Garcia, Luis Gerardo1; Cliffe, Micah1; Gallagher, Sara1; Hart, Kira1; Hesford, Brayden1; Mizrahi, Inbal1; Pike, Ruth1; Rodger, Dominic1; Sayki, Bade1; Schneck, Una1; Tan, Aysen1; Xiao, Yinxue “Yolanda”1; Lynch, Ryan S.3

Published Feb 19, 2019; Updated Jul 31, 2020 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5068/D1Z964

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Abstract

This dataset includes candidate signal detections obtained at the Green Bank Telescope in 2017 and reprocessed with the 2020 UCLA SETI Group data processing pipeline.

As part of our ongoing search for technosignatures, we collected over three terabytes of data in May 2017 with the L-band receiver (1.15–1.73 GHz) of the 100 m diameter Green Bank Telescope. These observations focused primarily on planetary systems in the Kepler field, but also included scans of the recently discovered TRAPPIST-1 and LHS 1140 systems. We present the results of our search for narrowband signals in this data set with techniques that are generally similar to those described by Margot et al. 2018. Our improved data processing pipeline classified over 98% of the ~6 million detected signals as anthropogenic Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). Of the remaining candidates, 30 were detected outside of densely populated frequency regions attributable to RFI. These candidates were carefully examined and determined to be of terrestrial origin.