Speaker
Description
The Galactic Center hosts the highest stellar density in the Galaxy, and its line
of sight provides the largest integrated Galactic star count of any direction in
the sky. Breakthrough Listen is conducting one of the most extensive and
sensitive searches for technosignatures and pulsars toward the Galactic
Center. In this talk, I summarize technosignature searches conducted with the
Green Bank Telescope over the past six years and discuss the recent discovery
of a potential millisecond pulsar candidate near the Galactic Center (Perez et
al. 2026). I also present preliminary progress on interferometric imaging at the
Allen Telescope Array (ATA), which will enable technosignature searches in
the visibility (UV) plane for the first time with the ATA, with the Galactic
Center as a primary target.