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A line-of-sight towards the Galactic Center (GC) offers the largest number of potentially habitable systems of any direction in the sky. The Breakthrough Listen program is undertaking the most sensitive and deepest targeted SETI surveys…

The goal of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is to quantify the prevalence of technological life beyond Earth via their "technosignatures". One theorized technosignature is narrowband Doppler drifting radio signals. The…

The question of whether intelligent life exists elsewhere is one of the fundamental unknowns about our Universe. Over the past decade more than 200 extra-solar planets have been discovered, providing new urgency for addressing this question…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Abraham Loeb , Matias Zaldarriaga

The lack of evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life, even the simplest forms of animal life, makes it is difficult to decide whether the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is more a high-risk, high-payoff endeavor…

Popular Physics · Physics 2017-04-14 Claudio Grimaldi

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence aims to find evidence of technosignatures, which can point toward the possible existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial life. Radio signals similar to those engineered on Earth may…

We have been conducting a search for narrowband radio signals with the L-band receiver (1.15-1.73 GHz) of the 100 m diameter Green Bank Telescope (Margot et al., 2023). So far, we have captured radio emissions from 70,000+ stars and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Jean-Luc Margot

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 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

We report on a search for artificial narrowband signals of 20 stars within the restricted Earth Transit Zone as a part of the ten-year Breakthrough Listen (BL) search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The restricted Earth Transit Zone is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-19 Sofia Z. Sheikh , Andrew Siemion , J. Emilio Enriquez , Danny C. Price , Howard Isaacson , Matt Lebofsky , Vishal Gajjar , Paul Kalas

Interferometric localisation of transients and pulsars via tied-array beam processing is challenging and can be limited by the native spatial resolution achievable by the instrument, especially at low frequencies and for compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Bradley W. Meyers , Arash Bahramian

SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, looking for technosignatures in data recorded at multiple observatories from 1998 to 2020. Most radio SETI projects analyze data using dedicated processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Eric J. Korpela , David P. Anderson , Jeff Cobb , Matt Lebofsky , Wei Liu , Dan Werthimer

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

We have compiled a catalogue of HII regions detected with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) between 72 and 231MHz. The multiple frequency bands provided by the MWA allow us identify the characteristic spectrum generated by the thermal…

The quest for radio signals from technologically-advanced extraterrestrial intelligence has traditionally concentrated on the vicinity of 1.4 GHz. In this paper, we extend the search to unprecedented territories, detailing our extensive…

Studying the diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission (hereafter, DGSE) at arc-minute angular scale is important to remove the foregrounds for the cosmological 21-cm observations. Statistical measurements of the large-scale DGSE can also be…

We present techniques developed to calibrate and correct Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) low frequency (72-300 MHz) radio observations for polarimetry. The extremely wide field-of-view, excellent instantaneous (u, v)-coverage and…

Over a period of several decades a concerted effort has been made to determine whether intelligent life exists outside of our solar system, known as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence or SETI. This has been based primarily upon…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fred H. Thaheld

We forecast the sensitivity with which the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) can measure the 21 cm power spectrum of cosmic hydrogen, using radiative transfer simulations to model reionization and the 21 cm signal. The MWA is sensitive to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam Lidz , Oliver Zahn , Matthew McQuinn , Matias Zaldarriaga , Lars Hernquist

We describe the parameters of a low-frequency all-sky survey of compact radio sources using Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS), undertaken with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). While this survey gives important complementary information…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-08 J. S. Morgan , J-P. Macquart , R. Chhetri , R. D. Ekers , S. J. Tingay , E. M. Sadler