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3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object passing through the Solar System. In this work, we conduct narrowband radio technosignature search toward 3I/ATLAS using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) L-band…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jian-Kang Li , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang

The search for technosignatures--remotely detectable evidence of extraterrestrial technology--draws upon examples from the recent history of Earth as well as projections of Earth's technosphere. Facilities like the Habitable Worlds…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Jacob Haqq-Misra , Ravi Kopparapu , George Profitiliotis

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is threatening modern radio astronomy. A classic approach to mitigate its impact on astronomical data involves discarding the corrupted time and frequency data samples through a process called flagging and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Gregory Hellbourg , Ian Morrison

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) using deep learning has gained attention as a complementary approach to cryptographic authentication, offering resistance to spoofing, replay attacks, and key leakage. While most RFF approaches rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Fawaz Abdul Razak , Yasin Yilmaz

The GASS is a survey of Galactic atomic hydrogen (HI) emission in the southern sky observed with the Parkes 64-m Radio Telescope. With a sensitivity of 60 mK for a channel width of 1 km/s the GASS is the most sensitive and most accurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-25 Peter M. W. Kalberla

The upcoming Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs) are expected to have the collecting area required to detect potential biosignature gases such as molecular oxygen, $\mathrm{O_2}$, in the atmosphere of terrestrial planets around nearby stars.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 Surangkhana Rukdee , Sagi Ben-Ami , Mercedes López-Morales , Andrew Szentgyorgyi , David Charbonneau , Juliana García-Mejía , Johannes Buchner

Post-processing algorithms play a key role in pushing the detection limits of high-contrast imaging (HCI) instruments. State-of-the-art image processing approaches for HCI enable the production of science-ready images relying on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Carlos Alberto Gomez Gonzalez , Olivier Absil , Marc van Droogenbroeck

The idea of searching for optical signals from extraterrestrial civilizations has become increasingly popular over the last five years, with dedicated projects at a number of observatories. The method relies on the detection of a brief (few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Holder , P. Ashworth , S. LeBohec , H. J. Rose , T. C. Weekes

Electromagnetic radiation from human activities, known as man-made Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), adversely affects radio astronomy observations. In the vicinity of the Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) array, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kaushal D. Buch , Ruta Kale , Kishor D. Naik , Rahul Aragade , Mekhala Muley , Sanjay Kudale , Ajith Kumar B

The technique of simultaneous spectral differential imaging (SSDI) is used to image directly brown dwarfs and exoplanets around nearby stars. An analytical PSF model is first presented with numerical simulations to estimate the PSF noise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Marois

The deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart cities and critical infrastructure has enhanced connectivity and real-time data exchange but introduced significant security challenges. While effective, cryptography can often be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ahmed Mohamed Hussain , Nada Abughanam , Panos Papadimitratos

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

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a persistent contaminant in terrestrial radio astronomy. While new radio interferometers are becoming operational, novel sources of RFI are also emerging. In order to strengthen the mitigation of RFI in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Sarod Yatawatta , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Chris P. Broekema

The FAST All Sky HI survey (FASHI) was designed to cover the entire sky observable by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), spanning approximately 22000 square degrees of declination between -14 deg and +66 deg,…

Here we analyse the archival data for a set of 27 Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Targets of Interest (TOIs) in search for artificially generated radio signals, or 'technosignatures', interrupted by occultation. Exoplanetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 R. Barrett , C. D. Tremblay , B. Addison , D. C. Price , J. A. Green

The 7.125-7.4 GHz band is attractive for next generation Terrestrial Network (TN) deployments owing to the large bandwidths available and favorable propagation characteristics. Furthermore, recent U.S. Presidential actions have cleared the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Md Toufiqur Rahman , Hariharan Venkat , Chung-Tse Michael Wu , Ivan Seskar , Narayan B. Mandayam

Running Median Subtraction Filter (RMSF) is a robust statistical tool for removing slowly varying baselines in data streams containing transients (short-duration signals) of interest. In this work, we explore the RMSF performance and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Arko P. Sen , Andrey Sarantsev , Geoffrey Blewitt , Andrei Derevianko

One of the most prolific methods of studying exoplanet atmospheres is transmission spectroscopy, which measures the difference between the depth of an exoplanet's transit signal at various wavelengths and attempts to correlate the depth…

The first Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) conducted with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) is presented. By consideration of the basic principles of interferometry, we show that VLBI is efficient at discriminating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 H. Rampadarath , J. S. Morgan , S. J. Tingay , C. M. Trott

Humanity has wondered whether we are alone for millennia. The discovery of life elsewhere in the Universe, particularly intelligent life, would have profound effects, comparable to those of recognizing that the Earth is not the center of…