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The BVIT: from Flare Stars to the Search for ET

Invited talk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2019

B. Y. Welsh ,
J. Vallerga ,
O. H. W. Siegmund ,
J. Wheatley  and
M. Kotze
B. Y. Welsh
Affiliation:
Experimental Astrophysics Group, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
J. Vallerga
Affiliation:
Experimental Astrophysics Group, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
O. H. W. Siegmund
Affiliation:
Experimental Astrophysics Group, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
J. Wheatley
Affiliation:
Experimental Astrophysics Group, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
M. Kotze
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The Berkeley Visible Image Tube (BVIT) has been a user instrument on the SALT 10-m telescope for the past six years. It can observe transient astrophysical phenomena occurring on time-scales of micro-seconds. This overview presented some recent observations of a dMe flare star, and discussed the recent results of our optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (OSETI) around nearby exoplanet-hosting stars.

Keywords

Stars: Flaresextraterrestrial intelligence: optical SETI
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S339: Southern Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , November 2017 , pp. 7 - 11
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2019 

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