The Breakthrough Listen program aims at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth using the world’s most powerful instruments (e.g. MeerKAT). Until now the use of VLBI for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been limited. University of Manchester Phd student Kelvin Wandia and collaborators demonstrated a new data analysis/interpretation scheme for SETI using VLBI. They have used the European VLBI network (EVN) at 21 cm to observe a phase calibrator near a G-type star hosting a rocky exoplanet Kepler-111b. The search for technosignatures from Kepler-111b was possible, however no transmitters were detected. Read the full article An interferometric SETI observation of Kepler-111 b here.
