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Can China's FAST telescope detect extraterrestrial von-Neumann probes?

Popular Physics 2021-10-05 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

In the present paper we consider the Type-2.x and Type-3.x extraterrestrial von-Neumann probes and study the problem of their detectability by the world's largest radio telescope: the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST). For this purpose we estimate the radio spectral parameters and analyse the obtained results in the context of technical characteristics of FAST. As a result, it is shown that FAST can detect as galactic as well as extragalactic self-replicating probes with high precision.

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@article{arxiv.2110.00406,
  title  = {Can China's FAST telescope detect extraterrestrial von-Neumann probes?},
  author = {Zaza Osmanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.00406},
  year   = {2021}
}

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