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Multi-planet systems face significant challenges to detection. For example, further orbiting planets have reduced signal-to-noise ratio in radial velocity detection methods, and small mutual inclinations between planets can prevent them…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Thea Faridani , Smadar Naoz , Gongjie Li , Malena Rice , Nicholas Inzunza

Pulsars have at least two impressive applications. First, they can be used as highly accurate clocks, comparable in stability to atomic clocks; secondly, a small subset of pulsars, millisecond X-ray pulsars, provide all the necessary…

Popular Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 Clement Vidal

Here we describe our ongoing efforts to develop high-performance and sensitive instrumentation for use in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI). These efforts include our recently deployed Search for Extraterrestrial…

Context: With no conclusive detection to date, the search for exomoons, satellites of planets orbiting other stars, remains a formidable challenge. Detecting these objects, compiling a population-level sample and constraining their…

We describe in detail how perturbations due to the planets can cause a sub-population of WIMPs captured by scattering in surface layers of the Sun to evolve to have orbits which no longer intersect the Sun. We argue that such WIMPs, if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Thibault Damour , Lawrence M. Krauss

Integrated sensing and communication is a key feature in next-generation wireless networks, enabling joint data transmission and environmental radar sensing on shared spectrum. In multi-user scenarios, simultaneous transmissions cause…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Laurits Randers , Martin Voigt Vejling , Petar Popovski

With the advent of modern astronomy, humans might now have acquired the technological and intellectual requirements to communicate with other intelligent beings beyond the solar system, if they exist. Radio signals have been identified as a…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 René Heller

We consider global catastrophic risks due to cosmic explosions (supernovae, magnetars and gamma-ray bursts) and possible mitigation strategies by humans and other hypothetical intelligent beings. While by their very nature these events are…

Popular Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Milan M. Cirkovic , Branislav Vukotic

SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project that looks for technosignatures in data recorded at the Arecibo Observatory. The data were collected over a period of 14 years and cover almost the entire sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 David P. Anderson , Eric J. Korpela , Dan Werthimer , Jeff Cobb , Bruce Allen

In recent years, satellite communication (SatCom) systems have been widely used for navigation, broadcasting application, disaster recovery, weather sensing, and even spying on the Earth. As the number of satellites is highly increasing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Olfa Ben Yahia , Eylem Erdogan , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Ibrahim Altunbas , Halim Yanikomeroglu

The Fermi paradox has given rise to various attempts to explain why no evidence of extraterrestrial civilisations was found so far on Earth and in our Solar System. Here, we present a dynamical model for the development of such…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Stefano Bovino

We propose a novel instrument design to greatly expand the current optical and near-infrared SETI search parameter space by monitoring the entire observable sky during all observable time. This instrument is aimed to search for…

The aim of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to find technologically-capable life beyond Earth through their technosignatures. On 2019 April 29, the Breakthrough Listen SETI project observed Proxima Centauri with the…

While SETI is often thought of as a part of radio astronomy with optical SETI, artifact SETI, METI, and other approaches to finding intelligent life considered to be allied fields, SETI is better understood as an interdisciplinary field…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Jason T. Wright

Interstellar communications are achievable with gram-scale spacecraft using swarm techniques introduced herein if an adequate energy source, clocks and a suitable communications protocol exist. The essence of our approach to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 T. Marshall Eubanks , W. Paul Blase , Andreas Hein , Adam Hibberd , Robert G. Kennedy

We report a narrowband technosignature search toward five Milky Way globular clusters (NGC 6171, NGC 6218, NGC 6254, NGC 6838, and IC 1276) using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) 19-beam L-band receiver…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 Bo-Lun Huang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang , Vishal Gajjar

The Fermi Paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high probability extraterrestrial civilizations' existence and the lack of contact with such civilizations. In general, solutions to Fermi's paradox come down to either estimation…

Popular Physics · Physics 2010-07-27 I. Bezsudnov , A. Snarskii

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

This study presents the implementation of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methodologies, particularly the fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), in prioritizing technosignatures (TSs) for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Juan Miguel Sánchez-Lozano , Eloy Peña-Asensio , Hector Socas-Navarro

Traditional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) immunity to interference may be approaching a practical performance ceiling. Greater gains are possible outside traditional GNSS orbits and spectrum. GNSS from low Earth orbit (LEO) has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Peter A. Iannucci , Todd E. Humphreys