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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.…

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We present the first results from the V-FASTR experiment, a commensal search for fast transient radio bursts using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). V-FASTR is unique in that the widely spaced VLBA antennas provide a discriminant against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Randall B. Wayth , Steven J. Tingay , Adam T. Deller , Walter F. Brisken , David R. Thompson , Kiri L. Wagstaff , Walid A. Majid

Extraterrestrial communication signals are hypothesized to be present in an extensive search space. Using principles of communication theory and system design, methods are studied and implemented to reduce the signal search space, while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 William J. Crilly

Fast radio bursts remain one of the most enigmatic astrophysical sources. Observations have significantly progressed over the last few years, thanks to the capabilities of new radio telescopes and the refurbishment of existing ones. Here we…

We describe the design and commissioning tests for the DSA-110 Not-So-Fast Radio Burst (NSFRB) search pipeline, a 1.4GHz image-plane single-pulse search sensitive to 134ms-160.8s radio bursts. Extending the pulse width range of the FRB…

HII regions made of gas ionized by radiations from young massive stars, are widely distributed in the Milky Way. They are tracers for star formation, and their distributions are correlated with the Galactic spiral structure. Radio…

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A 5$^{\circ}$ $\times$ 7$^{\circ}$ sky area containing two large radio structures of G203.1+6.6 and G206.7+5.9 with a size of about 2.5$^{\circ}$ and 3.5$^{\circ}$ respectively is scanned by using the L-band 19-beam receiver of the…

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A relatively unexplored phase space of transients and stellar variability is that of second and sub-second time-scales. We describe a new optical observatory operating in the Negev desert in Israel, with a 55 cm aperture, a field of view of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Guy Nir , Eran O. Ofek , Sagi Ben-Ami , Noam Segev , David Polishook , Ofir Hershko , Oz Diner , Ilan Manulis , Barak Zackay , Avishay Gal-Yam , Ofer Yaron

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has discovered more than 650 new pulsars, which account for 20% of our known Galactic pulsar population. In this paper, we estimate the prospect of a pulsar survey with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-01 Mengyao Xue , Weiwei Zhu , Xiangping Wu , Renxin Xu , Hongguang Wang

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

We present overall specifications and science goals for a new optical and near-infrared (350 - 1650 nm) instrument designed to greatly enlarge the current Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) phase space. The Pulsed All-sky…

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will enable the search for and characterization of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres in the habitable zone via transmission spectroscopy. However, relatively little work has been done to use solar…

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The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) Core Array is a proposed extension of FAST, integrating 24 secondary 40-m antennas implanted within 5 km of the FAST site. This original array design will combine the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Peng Jiang , Rurong Chen , Hengqian Gan , Jinghai Sun , Boqin Zhu , Hui Li , Weiwei Zhu , Jingwen Wu , Xuelei Chen , Haiyan Zhang , Tao An

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the most sensitive telescope at the $L$-band (1.0-1.5 GHz) and has been used to carry out the FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey in the last 5 yr. Up to now,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-03 J. L. Han , D. J. Zhou , C. Wang , W. Q. Su , Yi Yan , W. C. Jing , Z. L. Yang , P. F. Wang , T. Wang , J. Xu , N. N. Cai , J. H. Sun , Q. L. Yang , R. X. Xu , H. G. Wang , X. P. You

As a guide for astronomers new to the field of technosignature search (i.e. SETI), I present an overview of some of its observational and theoretical approaches. I review some of the various observational search strategies for SETI,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Jason T. Wright

Building on prior FAST targeted and blind SETI campaigns toward 33 exoplanet systems, we introduce a wavelet-integrated search pipeline for narrowband technosignature candidates in radio dynamic spectra. At its core, the pipeline uses a…

We explore the feasibility of HI galaxy redshift surveys with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and its proposed Core Array interferometry. Using semi-analytical simulations, we compare the performance of the FAST…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Zhenglong Li , Diyang Liu , Chengliang Xu , Yichao Li , Xin Zhang

We consider interstellar scintillations as a cause of intermittency in radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). We demonstrate that scintillations are very likely to allow initial detections of narrowband signals from distant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James M. Cordes , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Carl Sagan

Stray radiation is a considerable challenge for radio telescopes, requiring careful assessment due to its effects. This is crucial when the strong background flux from side lobes significantly affects the total flux, especially for extended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Qingze Chen , Jie Wang , Yingjie Jing , Ligang Hou , Chen Xu , Tiantian Liang , Xuyang Gao , Jinlin Han , Ziming Liu , Bin Liu , Chuanpeng Zhang , Hengqian Gan , Ming Zhu , Yan Zhu , Peng Jiang