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Never before has the detection and characterization of exoplanets via transitphotometry been as promising and feasible as it is now, due to the increasingbreadth and sensitivity of time domain optical surveys. Past works have madeuse of phase-folded stellar lightcurves in order to study the properties ofexoplanet transits, because this provides the highest signal that a transit ispresent at a given period and ephemeris. Characterizing transits on anindividual, rather than phase-folded, basis is much more challenging due to theoften low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of lightcurves, missing data, and lowsampling rates. However, by phase-folding a lightcurve we implicitly assumethat all transits have the same expected properties, and lose all informationabout the nature and variability of the transits. We miss the naturalvariability in transit shapes, or even the deliberate or inadvertentmodification of transit signals by an extraterrestrial civilization (forexample, via laser emission or orbiting megastructures). In this work, wedevelop an algorithm to search stellar lightcurves for individual anomalous (intiming or depth) transits, and we report the results of that search for 218confirmed transiting exoplanet systems from Kepler.

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Detection and Characterization of Anomalous Transits in Kepler Lightcurves