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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

This paper highlights a methodological approach designed to enhance the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by hypothesizing that a transmission technosignature would likely have two features: 1) be wideband in the microwave or…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Ross Davis

Exoplanetary systems are prime targets for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). With the recent uptick in the identification of candidate and confirmed exoplanets through the work of missions like the Transiting Exoplanet…

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

Radio Searches for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence aim at detecting artificial transmissions from extra terrestrial communicative civilizations. The lack of prior knowledge concerning these potential transmissions increase the search…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-19 Gregory Hellbourg

Polarized synchrotron emission from ultra-relativistic electrons spiraling the Galactic magnetic field has become one of the most relevant emissions in the Interstellar medium these last years due to the improvement in the quality of…

The estimation of periodicity is a fundamental task in many scientific areas of study. Existing methods rely on theoretical assumptions that the observation times have equal or i.i.d. spacings, and that common estimators, such as the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-01 Panos Toulis , Jacob Bean

Using a bistatic radar system on the ice surface, we have studied radiofrequency reflections off internal layers in Antarctic ice at the South Pole. In our measurement, the total propagation time of ~ns-duration, vertically broadcast radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-01 Dave Z. Besson

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) increasingly contaminates the radio astronomy spectrum, often exceeding astronomical signal amplitudes by 50-70 dB. Reliable detection and mitigation are therefore essential for studies of faint transient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Natalia A. Schmid , Sasanka Katreddi , Yechan Kweon

Linearly polarized emission is described, in general, in terms of the Stokes parameters $Q$ and $U$, from which the polarization intensity and polarization angle can be determined. Although the polarization intensity and polarization angle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 C. A. Herron , B. M. Gaensler , G. F. Lewis , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

Interstellar signals might be intermittent for many reasons, such as targeted sequential transmissions, or isotropic broadcasts that are not on continuously, or many other reasons. The time interval between such signals would be important,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Robert H. Gray

The discovery of many Earth-like planets has renewed interest in whether life and technological civilizations exist elsewhere. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) seeks evidence for technological civilizations via…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Keitaro Takahashi

We present modeled detection limits of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) and the Wide-Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST) to an optical and infrared laser which could be used by an extraterrestrial civilization to signal their presence.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Christina L. Vides , Bruce Macintosh , Breanna A. Binder , Robert J. De Rosa , Jean-Baptiste Ruffio , Dmitry Savransky

We present a simple but powerful technique for the analysis of polarized emission from radio galaxies and other objects. It is based on the fact that images of Stokes parameters often contain considerably more information than is available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-10 Lawrence Rudnick , Debora Katz , Lerato Sebokolodi

We report a radio SETI search for periodic, kHz-wide signals from five of the nearest stars observable with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Using the 19-beam L-band receiver (1.05-1.45 GHz), we obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Yu Hu , Bo-Lun Huang , Vishal Gajjar , Xiao-Hang Luan , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang

The Panoramic SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) experiment (PANOSETI) aims to detect and quantify optical transients from nanosecond to second precision over a large field-of-view ($\sim$4,450 square-degrees). To meet these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 J. Maire , S. A. Wright , D. Werthimer , F. P. Antonio , A. Brown , P. Horowitz , R. Lee , W. Liu , R. Raffanti , J. Wiley , M. Cosens , C. M. Heffner , A. W. Howard , R. P. S. Stone , R. R. Treffers

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

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) commensal surveys aim to scan the sky to detect technosignatures from extraterrestrial life. A major challenge in SETI is the effective mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI), a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Li-Li Zhao , Xiao-Hang Luan , Xin Chao , Yu-Chen Wang , Jian-Kang Li , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang , Hong-Feng Wang , Dan Werthimer

We apply classical machine vision and machine deep learning methods to prototype signal classifiers for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Our novel approach uses two-dimensional spectrograms of measured and simulated radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-08 G. R. Harp , Jon Richards , Seth Shostak Jill C. Tarter , Graham Mackintosh , Jeffrey D. Scargle , Chris Henze , Bron Nelson , G. A. Cox , S. Egly , S. Vinodababu , J. Voien

Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been mainly focused on nearby stars and their planets in recent years. Barnard's star is the second closest star system to the sun and the closest star in the FAST observable sky which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-17 Zhen-Zhao Tao , Bo-Lun Huang , Xiao-Hang Luan , Jian-Kang Li , Hai-Chen Zhao , Hong-Feng Wang , Tong-Jie Zhang