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The PANOSETI experiment is an all-sky, all-the-time visible search for nanosecond to millisecond time-scale transients. The experiment will deploy observatory domes at several sites, each dome containing ~45 telescopes and covering ~4,440…

Traditional searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) or "technosignatures" focus on dedicated observations of single stars or regions in the sky to detect excess or transient emission from intelligent sources. The newest generation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 James. R. A. Davenport

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) attempts to address the possibility of the presence of technological civilizations beyond the Earth. Benefiting from high sensitivity, large sky coverage, an innovative feed cabin for…

The main purpose of this article is to make Astronomers aware that Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence can be carried out by analyzing standard astronomical spectra, including those they already have taken. Simplicity is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ermanno F. Borra

The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) using radio telescopes is an area of research that is now more than 50 years old. Thus far, both targeted and wide-area surveys have yet to detect artificial signals from intelligent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michael A. Garrett

The Search for Extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a scientific and cultural effort seeking evidence of intelligent life beyond earth. Radio SETI observes the radio spectrum for ''technosignatures" that could be produced by an advanced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Kenneth M. Houston , Andrew P. V. Siemion , Steve Croft

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative has embarked on a comprehensive SETI survey of nearby stars in the Milky Way that is vastly superior to previous efforts as measured by a wide range of different metrics. SETI surveys traditionally ignore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-20 M. A. Garrett , A. P. V. Siemion

The ELTI concept capitalizes on recent breakthroughs in large-format SPAD (Single-Photon Avalanche Diode) imaging sensors, combining them with the unprecedented collecting area and segmented architecture of the ELT to deliver a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Francisco Prada , Enrique Perez , Sergio Fernandez-Acosta , Km Nitu Rai , Joel Sanchez-Bermudez

A spectral line image cube generated from 115 minutes of MWA data that covers a field of view of 400 sq. deg. around the Galactic Centre is used to perform the first Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) with the Murchison…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 S. J. Tingay , C. Tremblay , A. Walsh , R. Urquhart

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

The VLTI Spectro Imager (VSI) was proposed as a second-generation instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer providing the ESO community with spectrally-resolved, near-infrared images at angular resolutions down to 1.1…

One of the most interesting questions that astronomy can hope to answer is: are we alone in our Milky Way galaxy? A detection of an electromagnetic (EM) signal generated by an extraterrestrial technological intelligence, or the presence in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 B. Zuckerman

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

Optical SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) instruments that can explore the very fast time domain, especially with large sky coverage, offer an opportunity for new discoveries that can complement multimessenger and time domain…

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

Tracking moving masses in several degrees of freedom with high precision and large dynamic range is a central aspect in many current and future gravitational physics experiments. Laser interferometers have been established as one of the…

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a scientific endeavor which struggles with unique issues -- a strong indeterminacy in what data to look for and when to do so. This has led to attempts at finding both fundamental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Ian George , Xinan Chen , Lav R. Varshney

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has traditionally been conducted at radio wavelengths, but optical searches are well-motivated and increasingly feasible due to the growing availability of high-resolution spectroscopy. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Anna Zuckerman , Zoe Ko , Howard Isaacson , Steve Croft , Danny Price , Matt Lebofsky , Andrew Siemion

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…

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) is, historically, a search for aliens like us, inspired by human centric ideas of intelligence and technology. However, humans are not the only instance of an intelligent, communicating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Cameron Brooks , Estelle Janin , Gage Siebert , Cole Mathis , Orit Peleg , Sara Imari Walker