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The search for technosignatures from hypothetical galactic civilizations is going through a new phase of intense activity. For the first time, a significant fraction of the vast search space is expected to be sampled in the foreseeable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Claudio Grimaldi , Geoffrey W. Marcy

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…

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

Extrasolar planets are expected to emit detectable low frequency radio emission. In this paper we present results from new low frequency observations of two extrasolar planetary systems (Epsilon Eridani and HD 128311) taken at 150 MHz with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Samuel George , Ian Stevens

We searched high resolution spectra of 5600 nearby stars for emission lines that are both inconsistent with a natural origin and unresolved spatially, as would be expected from extraterrestrial optical lasers. The spectra were obtained with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Nathaniel K. Tellis , Geoffrey W. Marcy

We present results from a search for radio emission in 77 stellar systems hosting 140 exoplanets, predominantly within 17.5 pc using the Very Large Array (VLA) at $4-8$ GHz. This is the largest and most sensitive search to date for radio…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Kevin N. Ortiz Ceballos , Yvette Cendes , Edo Berger , Peter K. G. Williams

Searches for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) using large survey data often look for possible signatures of astroengineering. We propose to search for physically impossible effects caused by highly advanced technology, by carrying out…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-08 Beatriz Villarroel , Iñigo Imaz , Josefine Bergstedt

As first data release of a pilot extragalactic HI survey with Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST),we extracted 544 extragalaxies from three-dimensional(3D) spectral data to perform interactive searching and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-08 Jiangang Kang , Ming Zhu , Mei Ai , Haiyang Yu , Chun Sun

The most observable leakage radiation from an advanced civilization may well be from the use of power beaming to transfer energy and accelerate spacecraft. Applications suggested for power beaming involve launching spacecraft to orbit,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 James N. Benford , Dominic J. Benford

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…

Over the past few years, astronomers have detected thousands of planets and candidate planets by observing their periodic transits in front of their host stars. Related methods might soon allow studies of the chemical imprints of life in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-19 René Heller , Ralph E. Pudritz

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

The number of extragalactic sources detected at very hight energy (VHE, E$>$100GeV) has dramatically increased during the past years to reach more than fifty. The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) had observed the sky for more than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 D. A. Sanchez

In 2025 July, the third-ever interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, was discovered on its ingress into the Solar System. Similar to the NASA Voyager missions sent in 1977, science probes by extraterrestrial life ("artifact technosignatures") could…

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 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

A Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI), based on the possibility of interstellar communication via laser signals, is being designed to extend the search into the near-infrared spectral region (Wright et al, this conference). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jérôme Maire , Shelley A. Wright , Dan Werthimer , Richard R. Treffers , Geoffrey W. Marcy , Remington P. S. Stone , Frank Drake , Andrew Siemion

The Westerbork Radio Synthesis Telescope, WSRT, has been used to make a deep radio survey of an ~ 1.7 sq degree field coinciding with the AKARI North Ecliptic Pole Deep Field. The observations, data reduction and source count analysis are…

The Milky Way Galaxy contains an unknown number, $N$, of civilizations that emit electromagnetic radiation (of unknown wavelengths) over a finite lifetime, $L$. Here we are assuming that the radiation is not produced indefinitely, but…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Claudio Grimaldi , Geoffrey W. Marcy , Nathaniel K. Tellis , Frank Drake

The Breakthrough Listen program is, to date, the most extensive search for technological life beyond Earth. As part of this goal, over the past nine years it has surveyed thousands of nearby stars, close to 100 nearby galaxies, and a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 Caleb Painter , Steve Croft , Matthew Lebofsky , Alex Andersson , Carmen Choza , Vishal Gajjar , Danny Price , Andrew P. V. Siemion