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SETI in 2020

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

Abstract

In the spirit of Trimble's "Astrophysics in XXXX' series, I very briefly and subjectively review developments in SETI in 2020. My primary focus is 75 papers and books published or made public in 2020, which I sort into six broad categories: results from actual searches, new search methods and instrumentation, target and frequency seleciton, the development of technosignatures, theory of ETIs, and social aspects of SETI.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2107.07512,
  title  = {SETI in 2020},
  author = {Jason T. Wright},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07512},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

9 pp. Intended to be the first in an annual series. v.2 is the accepted version after proof corrections, and includes a description of one additional paper

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