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The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Target Selection of Nearby Stars and Galaxies

DeBoer, David; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Siemion, Andrew P. V. +10 more

We present the target selection for the Breakthrough Listen search for extraterrestrial intelligence during the first year of observations at the Green Bank Telescope, Parkes Telescope, and Automated Planet Finder. On the way to observing 1,000,000 nearby stars in search of technological signals, we present three main sets of objects we plan to ob…