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Here we describe our ongoing efforts to develop high-performance and sensitive instrumentation for use in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI). These efforts include our recently deployed Search for Extraterrestrial…

SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project that looks for technosignatures in data recorded at the Arecibo Observatory. The data were collected over a period of 14 years and cover almost the entire sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 David P. Anderson , Eric J. Korpela , Dan Werthimer , Jeff Cobb , Bruce Allen

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to search for technosignatures associated with extraterrestrial life, such as engineered radio signals. In this paper, we apply the multibeam coincidence matching (MBCM) strategy, and…

We are designing and constructing a new SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) instrument to search for direct evidence of interstellar communications via pulsed laser signals at near-infrared wavelengths. The new instrument design…

We applied the Koch snowflake fractal antenna in planning calibration of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), hypothesizing second-order fractal primary reflectors can optimize the orientated sensitivity of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-15 Yi-Xuan Chen , Wen-Fei Liu , Zhi-Song Zhang , Tong-Jie Zhang

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

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) is a research activity that started in the late 1950s, predating the arrival of "Big History" and "Astrobiology" by several decades. Many elements first developed as part of the original…

Popular Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Michael A. Garrett

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

Strong gravitationally lensed supernovae (SNe) are a powerful probe for cosmology and stellar physics. The relative time delays between lensed SN images provide an independent way of measuring a fundamental cosmological parameter -- the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Jiang Dong , Yiping Shu , Guoliang Li , Xinzhong Er , Bin Hu , Youhua Xu

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…

Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a Chinese mega-science project to build the largest single dish radio telescope in the world. Its innovative engineering concept and design pave a new road to realize a huge…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-01 Rendong Nan , Di Li , Chengjin Jin , Qiming Wang , Lichun Zhu , Wenbai Zhu , Haiyan Zhang , Youling Yue , Lei Qian

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

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

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has historically focused on detecting electromagnetic technosignatures, implicitly assuming that alien civilisations are biological and technologically analogous to ourselves. This paper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Michael Garrett

The Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) will make contributions to the study of Galactic and extragalactic masers. The telescope, now finished construction and commissioning in China, has an innovative design that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-24 J. S. Zhang , D. Li , J. Z. Wang , Q. F. Zhu , J. Li

We propose a novel instrument design to greatly expand the current optical and near-infrared SETI search parameter space by monitoring the entire observable sky during all observable time. This instrument is aimed to search for…

The existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life forms among the thousands of billions of galaxies that dance in the Universe is beyond doubt. Meeting with one of them is only a matter of time. SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial…

Popular Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Olivier Auber

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is an upcoming Stage-IV sky survey telescope, distinguished by its large field of view (FoV), high image quality, and multi-band observation capabilities. It can simultaneously conduct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 CSST Collaboration , Yan Gong , Haitao Miao , Hu Zhan , Zhao-Yu Li , Jinyi Shangguan , Haining Li , Chao Liu , Xuefei Chen , Haibo Yuan , Jilin Zhou , Hui-Gen Liu , Cong Yu , Jianghui Ji , Zhaoxiang Qi , Jiacheng Liu , Zigao Dai , Xiaofeng Wang , Zhenya Zheng , Lei Hao , Jiangpei Dou , Yiping Ao , Zhenhui Lin , Kun Zhang , Wei Wang , Guotong Sun , Ran Li , Guoliang Li , Youhua Xu , Xinfeng Li , Shengyang Li , Peng Wu , Jiuxing Zhang , Bo Wang , Jinming Bai , Yi-Fu Cai , Zheng Cai , Jie Cao , Kwan Chuen Chan , Jin Chang , Xiaodian Chen , Xuelei Chen , Yuqin Chen , Yun Chen , Wei Cui , Subo Dong , Pu Du , Wenying Duan , Junhui Fan , LuLu Fan , Zhou Fan , Zuhui Fan , Taotao Fang , Jianning Fu , Liping Fu , Zhensen Fu , Jian Gao , Shenghong Gu , Yidong Gu , Qi Guo , Zhanwen Han , Bin Hu , Zhiqi Huang , Luis C. Ho , Linhua Jiang , Ning Jiang , Yipeng Jing , Xi Kang , Xu Kong , Cheng Li , Chengyuan Li , Di Li , Jing Li , Nan Li , Yang A. Li , Shilong Liao , Weipeng Lin , Fengshan Liu , Jifeng Liu , Xiangkun Liu , Zhuokai Liu , Ruiqing Mao , Shude Mao , Xianmin Meng , Xiaoying Pang , Xiyan Peng , Yingjie Peng , Huanyuan Shan , Juntai Shen , Shiyin Shen , Zhiqiang Shen , Sheng-Cai Shi , Yong Shi , Siyuan Tan , Hao Tian , Jianmin Wang , Jun-Xian Wang , Xin Wang , Yuting Wang , Hong Wu , Jingwen Wu , Xuebing Wu , Chun Xu , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Yongquan Xue , Ji Yang , Xiaohu Yang , Qijun Yao , Fangting Yuan , Zhen Yuan , Jun Zhang , Pengjie Zhang , Tianmeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Xin Zhang , Gang Zhao , Gongbo Zhao , Hongen Zhong , Jing Zhong , Liyong Zhou , Wei Zhu , Ying Zu

Optical SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) instruments that can explore the very fast time domain, especially with large sky coverage, offer an opportunity for new discoveries that can complement multimessenger and time domain…