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Advancing the scientific frontier in the search for life in the universe requires support of searches for both biosignatures and technosignatures. A modest budgetary increment can expand the search for life in the universe from primitive to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Jean-Luc Margot , Steve Croft , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Jill Tarter , Eric J. Korpela

We implement a machine learning algorithm to search for extra-terrestrial technosignatures in radio observations of several hundred nearby stars, obtained with the Parkes and Green Bank Telescopes by the Breakthrough Listen collaboration.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Snir Pardo , Dovi Poznanski , Steve Croft , Andrew P. V. Siemion , Matthew Lebofsky

We investigate looking for black hole starships using very high energy gamma ray telescopes. We find they would be above the threshhold of visibility although there are many unknown factors.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Louis Crane

WISE, Gaia, and JWST provide an opportunity to compute the first robust upper limits on the energy supplies of extraterrestrial civilizations, both for stars in the Galaxy (Kardashev Type II civilizations) and for other galaxies (Kardashev…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Jason T. Wright , Erik Zackrisson , Casey Lisse

The Atacama Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) remains unparalleled in sensitivity at radio frequencies above 35 GHz. In this paper, we explore ALMA's potential for narrowband technosignature detection, considering factors such as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Louisa A Mason , Michael A Garrett , Kelvin Wandia , Andrew P V Siemion

The search for life in the universe is a major theme of astronomy and astrophysics for the next decade. Searches for technosignatures are complementary to searches for biosignatures, in that they offer an alternative path to discovery, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Jason T. Wright

It is well-known that the chances of success of SETI depend on the longevity of technological civilizations or, more broadly, on the duration of the signs of their existence, or technosignatures. Here, we re-examine this general tenet in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Amedeo Balbi , Milan M. Ćirković

The search for life beyond the Solar System-a major part of the Planetary Systems thematic area of the Astro2020 Decadal process-includes the search for technological life. Although financial support for such searches at the NSF and NASA…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Jason T. Wright

Several technosignature techniques focus on historic events such as SN 1987A as the basis to search for coordinated signal broadcasts from extraterrestrial agents. The recently discovered SN 2023ixf in the spiral galaxy M101 is the nearest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 James R. A. Davenport , Sofia Z. Sheikh , Wael Farah , Andy Nilipour , Bárbara Cabrales , Steve Croft , Alexander W. Pollak , Andrew P. V. Siemion

As part of our ongoing search for technosignatures, we collected over three terabytes of data in May 2017 with the L-band receiver (1.15-1.73 GHz) of the 100 m diameter Green Bank Telescope. These observations focused primarily on planetary…

Searches for radio technosignatures place constraints on the prevalence of extraterrestrial transmitters in our Galaxy and beyond. It is important to account for the complete stellar population captured within a radio telescope's field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Louisa A. Mason , Michael A. Garrett , Andrew P. V. Siemion

New generational very-high-energy telescope arrays have been detecting more than 120 TeV {\gamma}-ray sources. Multi-wavelength observations on these Gamma-ray sources have proven to be robust in shedding light on their nature. The coming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-04 Wenwu Tian , Jianli Zhang

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 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

Spatiotemporal techniques for signal coordination with actively transmitting extraterrestrial civilizations, without the need for prior communication, can constrain technosignature searches to a significantly smaller coordinate space. With…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Andy Nilipour , James R. A. Davenport , Steve Croft , Andrew P. V. Siemion