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Polarised radio synchrotron emission from interstellar, intracluster and intergalactic magnetic fields is affected by frequency-dependent Faraday depolarisation. The maximum polarised intensity depends on the physical properties of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tigran G. Arshakian , Rainer Beck

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) poses a significant challenge in radio astronomy, arising from terrestrial and celestial sources, disrupting observations conducted by radio telescopes. Addressing RFI involves intricate heuristic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Nicholas J. Pritchard , Andreas Wicenec , Mohammed Bennamoun , Richard Dodson

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

A Fourier transform analysis of 2.5 million spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey was carried out to detect periodic spectral modulations. Signals having the same period were found in only 234 stars overwhelmingly in the F2 to K1 spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 E. F. Borra , E. Trottier

We demonstrate that extremely rapid and weak periodic and non-periodic signals can easily be detected by using the autocorrelation of intensity as a function of time. We use standard radio-astronomical observations that have artificial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Ermanno F. Borra , Jonathan D. Romney , Eric Trottier

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a significant challenge faced by today's radio astronomers. While most past efforts were devoted to cleaning the RFI from the data, we develop a novel method for categorizing and cataloguing RFI for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Mao Yuan , Weiwei Zhu , Haiyan Zhang , Shijie Huang , Mengyao Xue , Di Li , Youling Yue , Pei Wang , 1 Jiarui Niu , Yuxuan Hu , Chunjiang Li , Chenchen Miao , Yu Wang , Lingqi Meng , Bo Peng

One of the most interesting questions that astronomy can hope to answer is: are we alone in our Milky Way galaxy? A detection of an electromagnetic (EM) signal generated by an extraterrestrial technological intelligence, or the presence in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 B. Zuckerman

The Stokes V parameter characterizes asymmetry of amplitudes between right- and left-handed waves, and non-vanishing value of the V parameter yields a circularly polarized signal. Cosmologically, V parameter may be a direct probe for parity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Naoki Seto , Atsushi Taruya

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence by looking for signals from advanced technological civilizations has been ongoing for some decades. We suggest that it could possibly be made more efficient by focusing on stars from which the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-10 Shmuel Nussinov

Quantifying the amount of polarization is crucial for understanding and studying political polarization in political and social systems. Several methods are used commonly to measure polarization in social networks by purely inspecting their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ali Salloum , Ted Hsuan Yun Chen , Mikko Kivelä

Narrowband radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) in the 21st century suffers severely from radio frequency interference (RFI), resulting in a high number of false positives, and it could be the major reason why we have not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Bo-Lun Huang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang

In blind detection, a set of candidates has to be decoded within a strict time constraint, to identify which transmissions are directed at the user equipment. Blind detection is an operation required by the 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced standard,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Carlo Condo , Seyyed Ali Hashemi , Warren J. Gross

The goal of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is the detection of non-human technosignatures, such as technology-produced emission in radio observations. While many have speculated about the character of such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Bryan Brzycki , Andrew P. V. Siemion , Imke de Pater , Steve Croft , John Hoang , Cherry Ng , Danny C. Price , Sofia Z. Sheikh , Zihe Zheng

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been conducted for over sixty years, yet no technosignatures have been identified. Previous studies have focused on stars in our galaxy, with few searches in the extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Yuri Uno , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Simon C. -C. Ho , Tzu-Yin Hsu , Ross Burns

The technique of Faraday tomography is a key tool for the study of magnetised plasmas in the new era of broadband radio polarisation observations. In particular, observations at metre-wavelengths provide significantly better Faraday depth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-03 Shane P. O'Sullivan , M. Brüggen , C. L. Van Eck , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Haverkorn , T. W. Shimwell , C. Tasse , V. Vacca , C. Horellou , G. Heald

We present a technique to determine the polarization properties of a telescope through observations of spectral lines that have no intrinsic linear polarization signals. For such spectral lines, any observed linear polarization must be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-05 A. Derks , C. Beck , V. Martinez Pillet

A formula is proposed to quantitatively estimate the signal emission rate of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent civilizations (CETIs) in the Galaxy. I suggest that one possible type of CETI signal would be brief radio bursts…

Popular Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Bing Zhang

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 describe a simple but effective iterative procedure specifically designed to destripe Q and U Stokes parameter data as those collected by the SPOrt experiment onboard the International Space Station (ISS). The method is general enough to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Sbarra , E. Carretti , S. Cortiglioni , M. Zannoni , R. Fabbri , C. Macculi , M. Tucci

We present an updated version of POLARIS, a well established code designated for dust polarisation and line radiative transfer (RT) in arbitrary astrophysical environments. We extend the already available capabilities with a synchrotron…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Stefan Reissl , Robert Brauer , Ralf S. Klessen , Eric W. Pellegrini