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We describe a new low-frequency wideband radio survey of the southern sky. Observations covering 72 - 231 MHz and Declinations south of $+30^\circ$ have been performed with the Murchison Widefield Array "extended" Phase II configuration…

Exoplanet research has shown an incessant growth since the first claim of a hot giant planet around a solar-like star in the mid-1990s. Today, the new facilities are working to spot the first habitable rocky planets around low-mass stars as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Serena Benatti

We report characterization results for an engineering prototype of a next-generation low-frequency radio astronomy array. This prototype, which we refer to as the Aperture Array Verification System 0.5 (AAVS0.5), is a sparse pseudo-random…

We present the design of a novel instrument tuned to detect transiting exoplanet atmospheres. The instrument, which we call the exoplanet transmission spectroscopy imager (ETSI), makes use of a new technique called common-path multi-band…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Mary Anne Limbach , Luke M. Schmidt , D. L. DePoy , Jeffrey C. Mason , Mike Scobey , Pat Brown , Chelsea Taylor , Jennifer L. Marshall

The transmission rate of communication between radio telescopes on Earth and extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) is here calculated up to distances of 1000 light years. Both phase-shift-keying (PSK) and frequency-shift keying (FSK)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-01 P. A. Fridman

We conducted a search for narrowband radio signals over four observing sessions in 2020-2023 with the L-band receiver (1.15-1.73 GHz) of the 100 m diameter Green Bank Telescope. We pointed the telescope in the directions of 62 TESS Objects…

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

We describe a new approach and algorithm for the detection of artificial signals and their classification in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The characteristics of radio signals observed during SETI research are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-16 G. A. Cox , S. Egly , G. R. Harp , J. Richards , S. Vinodababu , J. Voien

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

We report the first astrophysical application of the technique of wide-field Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). This powerful technique allows us to identify and measure sub-arcsecond compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 R. Chhetri , J. Morgan , R. D. Ekers , J-P Macquart , E. M. Sadler , M. Giroletti , J. R. Callingham , S. J. Tingay

Previous and ongoing searches for extraterrestrial optical and infrared nanosecond laser pulses and narrow line-width continuous emissions have so far returned null results. At the commonly used observation cadence of $\sim 10^{-9}\,$s,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Michael Hippke

We report the design and functionality of the Murchison Widefield Array Particle Detector Array (MWA PDA), an array of eight particle scintillation detectors deployed to Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory…

The "search for extraterrestrial intelligence" (SETI) commensal surveys aim to scan the sky to find possible technosignatures from the extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). The mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI) is an important…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Yu-Chen Wang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Zhi-Song Zhang , Cheqiu Lyu , Tingting Zhang , Tong-Jie Zhang , Dan Werthimer

Precise near-infrared radial velocimetry enables efficient detection and transit verification of low-mass extrasolar planets orbiting M dwarf hosts, which are faint for visible-wavelength radial velocity surveys. The TripleSpec Exoplanet…

The modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) began with the seminal publications of Cocconi & Morrison (1959) and Schwartz & Townes (1961), who proposed to search for narrow-band signals in the radio spectrum, and for optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 Michael Hippke

We extend the source sample recently observed by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative by including additional stars (with parallaxes measured by Gaia) that also reside within the FWHM of the GBT and Parkes radio telescope target fields. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 B. S. Wlodarczyk-Sroka , M. A. Garrett , A. P. V. Siemion

Deep imaging of structures from the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) in five targeted fields is one of the highest priority scientific objectives for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Selecting 'quiet' fields, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Xueying Zhang , Qian Zheng , Linhui Wu , Quan Guo , Stefan W. Duchesne , Mengfan He , Huanyuan Shan , Xiang-ping Wu , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Feiyu Zhao , Qingyuan Ma

Around 10% of bright low-frequency radio sources observed with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) show strong Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) on timescales of a few seconds, implying that almost all their low-frequency radio emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Elaine M. Sadler , Rajan Chhetri , John Morgan , Elizabeth K. Mahony , Thomas H. Jarrett , Steven Tingay