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As a guide for astronomers new to the field of technosignature search (i.e. SETI), I present an overview of some of its observational and theoretical approaches. I review some of the various observational search strategies for SETI,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Jason T. Wright

A Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI), based on the possibility of interstellar communication via laser signals, is being designed to extend the search into the near-infrared spectral region (Wright et al, this conference). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jérôme Maire , Shelley A. Wright , Dan Werthimer , Richard R. Treffers , Geoffrey W. Marcy , Remington P. S. Stone , Frank Drake , Andrew Siemion

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) targeted searches aim to observe specific areas and objects to find possible technosignatures. Many SETI researches have focused on nearby stars and their planets in recent years. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Xiao-Hang Luan , Bo-Lun Huang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Yan Cui , Tong-Jie Zhang , Pei Wang

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, lists the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as one of its key scientific objectives. In this work, we present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Jian-Kang Li , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Pei Wang , Tong-Jie Zhang

Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been mainly focused on nearby stars and their planets in recent years. Barnard's star is the second closest star system to the sun and the closest star in the FAST observable sky which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-17 Zhen-Zhao Tao , Bo-Lun Huang , Xiao-Hang Luan , Jian-Kang Li , Hai-Chen Zhao , Hong-Feng Wang , Tong-Jie Zhang

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is one of its five key science objectives. We conducted a targeted…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Guang-Yuan Song , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Bo-Lun Huang , Yan Cui , Bo Yu , Tong-Jie Zhang

We employed the SERENDIP III system with the Arecibo radio telescope to search for possible artificial extraterrestrial signals. Over the four years of this search we covered 93% of the sky observable at Arecibo at least once and 44% of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-05 Stuart Bowyer , Michael Lampton , Eric Korpela , Jeff Cobb , Matt Lebofsky , Dan Werthimer

The rise of high energy astrophysics and solar physics in the 20th century is linked to the development of space telescopes; since the 1960s they have given access to the X-ray and gamma-ray sky, revealing the most violent phenomena in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-09 Aline Meuris

Since the commencement of the first SETI observation in 2019, China's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program has garnered momentum through domestic support and international collaborations. Several observations targeting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Tong-Jie Zhang , Bo-Lun Huang , Jian-Kang Li , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Xiao-Hang Luan , Zhi-Song Zhang , Yu-Chen Wang

Radio Searches for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence aim at detecting artificial transmissions from extra terrestrial communicative civilizations. The lack of prior knowledge concerning these potential transmissions increase the search…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-19 Gregory Hellbourg

Exoplanetary systems are prime targets for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). With the recent uptick in the identification of candidate and confirmed exoplanets through the work of missions like the Transiting Exoplanet…

We applied the Koch snowflake fractal antenna in planning calibration of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), hypothesizing second-order fractal primary reflectors can optimize the orientated sensitivity of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-15 Yi-Xuan Chen , Wen-Fei Liu , Zhi-Song Zhang , Tong-Jie Zhang

The goal of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is the detection of non-human technosignatures, such as technology-produced emission in radio observations. While many have speculated about the character of such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Bryan Brzycki , Andrew P. V. Siemion , Imke de Pater , Steve Croft , John Hoang , Cherry Ng , Danny C. Price , Sofia Z. Sheikh , Zihe Zheng

SETI@home, a search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence, has been recording data at the Arecibo radio telescope since 1999. These data are sent via the Internet to the personal computers of volunteers who have donated their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 Eric J. Korpela , Jeff Cobb , Matt Lebofsky , Andrew Siemion , Joshua von Korff , Robert C. Bankay , Dan Werthimer , David Anderson

The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) aims to find technological signals of extra-solar origin. Radio frequency SETI is characterized by large unlabeled datasets and complex interference environment. The infinite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Yunfan Gerry Zhang , Ki Hyun Won , Seung Woo Son , Andrew Siemion , Steve Croft

The field of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) searches for ``technosignatures'' that could provide the first detection of life beyond Earth through the technology that an extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) may have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 Sofia Z. Sheikh , Macy J. Huston , Pinchen Fan , Jason T. Wright , Thomas Beatty , Connor Martini , Ravi Kopparapu , Adam Frank

As a major approach to looking for life beyond the Earth, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is committed to detecting technosignatures such as engineered radio signals that are indicative of technologically capable life.…

PANOSETI (Pulsed All-Sky Near-infrared Optical Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) is a dedicated SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) observatory that is being designed to observe 4,441 sq. deg. to search for nano- to…

Interferometric techniques are at the forefront of modern astronomical instrumentation. A new generation of instruments are either operating or nearing completion, including arrays of small telescopes as well as the ``big guns'' (VLTI and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy R. Bedding

HERMES-TP/SP (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites Technologic and Scientific Pathfinder) is a constellation of six 3U nano-satellites hosting simple but innovative X-ray detectors, characterized by a large energy band and…