Blimpy: Breakthrough Listen I/O Methods for Python

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has historically used radio astronomy data as the main venue to search for artificial signals of extraterrestrial origin. The Breakthrough Listen program is the latest large-scale project for the search of technosignatures, and thanks to modern telescopes and instrumentation, as well as significant amounts of dedicated observing time, the program has become the largest SETI endeavour in history. This has also resulted in an unprecedented amount of publicly-available data (Lebofsky et al., 2019). Over 1 PB of data from the Breakthrough Listen program may be downloaded from seti.berkeley.edu/opendata.

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