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Possibility of a coordinated signaling scheme in the Galaxy and SETI experiments

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2019-04-24 v1 Popular Physics

Abstract

We discuss a Galaxy-wide coordinated signaling scheme with which a SETI observer needs to examine a tiny fraction of the sky. The target sky direction is determined as a function of time, based on high-precision measurements of a progenitor of a conspicuous astronomical event such as a coalescence of a double neutron star binary. In various respects, such a coordinated scheme would be advantageous for both transmitters and receivers, and might be widely prevailing as a tacit adjustment. For this scheme, the planned space gravitational-wave detector LISA and its follow-on missions have a potential to narrow down the target sky area by a factor of 103-410^{3\textit{-}4}, and could have a large impact on future SETI experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1904.00536,
  title  = {Possibility of a coordinated signaling scheme in the Galaxy and SETI experiments},
  author = {Naoki Seto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00536},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL