Candidate Identification and Interference Removal in SETI@home

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1–1.9 GHz Observations of 692 Nearby Stars

“…The potential spectral similarity between an-thropogenic radio-frequency interference (RFI) and extraterrestrial technological transmissions brings additional complications. The sheer immensity of the parameter space that must be explored is a potential explanation to the absence of radio detections of extraterrestrial intelligence, despite numerous previous efforts (Verschuur 1973;Tarter et al 1980;Bowyer et al 1983;Horowitz et al 1986;Steffes & Deboer 1994;Bowyer et al 1995;Mauersberger et al 1996;Backus 1998;Werthimer et al 2000;Korpela et al 2011;Siemion et al 2013;Harp et al 2016;Gray & Mooley 2017).…”