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The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, lists the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as one of its key scientific objectives. In this work, we present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Jian-Kang Li , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Pei Wang , Tong-Jie Zhang

Berkeley conducts 7 SETI programs at IR, visible and radio wavelengths. Here we review two of the newest efforts, Astropulse and Fly's Eye. A variety of possible sources of microsecond to millisecond radio pulses have been suggested in the…

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

We report radio SETI observations on a large number of known exoplanets and other nearby star systems using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA). Observations were made over about 19000 hours from May 2009 to Dec 2015. This search focused on…

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

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is one of its five key science objectives. We conducted a targeted…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Guang-Yuan Song , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Bo-Lun Huang , Yan Cui , Bo Yu , Tong-Jie Zhang

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) targeted searches aim to observe specific areas and objects to find possible technosignatures. Many SETI researches have focused on nearby stars and their planets in recent years. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Xiao-Hang Luan , Bo-Lun Huang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Yan Cui , Tong-Jie Zhang , Pei Wang

In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), the highly incomplete sampling of the technosignature search space is often considered as a plausible explanation for the persistent lack of detections over six decades of searches. If…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Claudio Grimaldi

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

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…

We conducted a search for narrowband radio signals over four observing sessions in 2020-2023 with the L-band receiver (1.15-1.73 GHz) of the 100 m diameter Green Bank Telescope. We pointed the telescope in the directions of 62 TESS Objects…

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 main purpose of this article is to make Astronomers aware that Searches for Extraterrestrial Intelligence can be carried out by analyzing standard astronomical spectra, including those they already have taken. Simplicity is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ermanno F. Borra

Many articulations of the Fermi Paradox have as a premise, implicitly or explicitly, that humanity has searched for signs of extraterrestrial radio transmissions and concluded that there are few or no obvious ones to be found. Tarter et al.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-21 Jason T. Wright , Shubham Kanodia , Emily G. Lubar

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

Radio frequency interference (RFI) detection and excision are key steps in the data-processing pipeline of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Because of its high sensitivity and large data rate, FAST requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Zhicheng Yang , Ce Yu , Jian Xiao , Bo Zhang

Recent observations of changes in radioactive decay rates associated with the annual variation of the Earth-Sun distance, with solar rotation, and particularly with solar storms, suggest that radioactive decay rates may be responding to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-14 Ephraim Fischbach , John T. Gruenwald

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…

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a scientific endeavor which struggles with unique issues -- a strong indeterminacy in what data to look for and when to do so. This has led to attempts at finding both fundamental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Ian George , Xinan Chen , Lav R. Varshney

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