The BVIT: from Flare Stars to the Search for ET
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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Southern Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- August 2019
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2019IAUS..339....7W
- Keywords:
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- Stars: Flares;
- extraterrestrial intelligence: optical SETI