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There have been periodic efforts in recent decades to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), especially by trying to find an extraterrestrial (ET) radio signal or other technosignature in space. Yet, no such technosignatures have…

Popular Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Ross Davis

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

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…

A major aspect of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) involves searching for electromagnetic transmissions from extraterrestrial sources, often using our own transmissions as a guide. Previous studies have suggested that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-22 Pinchen Fan , Jason T. Wright , T. Joseph W. Lazio

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) has heretofore been a largely passive exercise, reliant on the pursuit of technosignatures. Still, there are those that advocate a more active approach. Messaging Extraterrestrial…

Popular Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 T. Cortellesi

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 (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

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

In the cm-wavelength range, an extraterrestrial electromagnetic narrow band (sine wave) beacon is an excellent choice to get alien attention across interstellar distances because 1) it is not strongly affected by interstellar /…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-08 G. R. Harp , R. F. Ackermann , Samantha K. Blair , J. Arbunich , P. R. Backus , J. C. Tarter , the ATA Team

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has traditionally focused on the detection of narrowband electromagnetic beacons. However, terrestrial technology is increasingly evolving toward distributed, low-power, wideband digital…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Michael A. Garrett

We report a novel radio autocorrelation (AC) search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). For selected frequencies across the terrestrial microwave window (1-10 GHz) observations were conducted at the Allen Telescope Array to identify…

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

For more than 60 years, the predominant SETI search paradigm has entailed the observation of stars in an effort to detect alien electromagnetic signals that deliberately target Earth. However, this strategy is fraught with challenges when…

Popular Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 John Gertz

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

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

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

The primary goal of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to gain an understanding of the prevalence of technologically advanced beings (organic or inorganic) in the Galaxy. One way to approach this is to look for…

New and unique opportunities now exist to look for technosignatures (TS) beyond traditional SETI radio searches, motivated by tremendous advances in exoplanet science and observing capabilities in recent years. Space agencies, both public…

The discovery of exoplanets has both focused and expanded the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The consideration of Earth as an exoplanet, the knowledge of the orbital parameters of individual exoplanets, and our new understanding…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Jason T. Wright
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