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The goal of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is to quantify the prevalence of technological life beyond Earth via their "technosignatures". One theorized technosignature is narrowband Doppler drifting radio signals. The…

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 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) is, historically, a search for aliens like us, inspired by human centric ideas of intelligence and technology. However, humans are not the only instance of an intelligent, communicating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Cameron Brooks , Estelle Janin , Gage Siebert , Cole Mathis , Orit Peleg , Sara Imari Walker

The Doppler shift of a radio signal is caused by the relative motion between the transmitter and receiver. The change in frequency of the signal over time is called drift rate. In the studies of radio SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-14 Jian-Kang Li , Haichen Zhao , Zhenzhao Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang , Sun Xiaohui

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has traditionally focused on the detection of narrowband electromagnetic beacons. However, terrestrial technology is increasingly evolving toward distributed, low-power, wideband digital…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Michael A. Garrett

Traditional searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) or "technosignatures" focus on dedicated observations of single stars or regions in the sky to detect excess or transient emission from intelligent sources. The newest generation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 James. R. A. Davenport

There have been periodic efforts in recent decades to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), especially by trying to find an extraterrestrial (ET) radio signal or other technosignature in space. Yet, no such technosignatures have…

Popular Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Ross Davis

The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) aims to find technological signals of extra-solar origin. Radio frequency SETI is characterized by large unlabeled datasets and complex interference environment. The infinite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Yunfan Gerry Zhang , Ki Hyun Won , Seung Woo Son , Andrew Siemion , Steve Croft

We report a novel radio autocorrelation (AC) search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). For selected frequencies across the terrestrial microwave window (1-10 GHz) observations were conducted at the Allen Telescope Array to identify…

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

SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, looking for technosignatures in data recorded at multiple observatories from 1998 to 2020. Most radio SETI projects analyze data using dedicated processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-25 Eric J. Korpela , David P. Anderson , Jeff Cobb , Matt Lebofsky , Wei Liu , Dan Werthimer

As a major approach to looking for life beyond the Earth, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is committed to detecting technosignatures such as engineered radio signals that are indicative of technologically capable life.…

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 Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) using radio telescopes is an area of research that is now more than 50 years old. Thus far, both targeted and wide-area surveys have yet to detect artificial signals from intelligent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michael A. Garrett

Over a period of several decades a concerted effort has been made to determine whether intelligent life exists outside of our solar system, known as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence or SETI. This has been based primarily upon…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fred H. Thaheld

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

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence aims to find evidence of technosignatures, which can point toward the possible existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial life. Radio signals similar to those engineered on Earth may…

Recent and upcoming stabilized spectrographs are pushing the frontier for Doppler spectroscopy to detect and characterize low-mass planets. Specifications for these instruments are so impressive that intrinsic stellar variability is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Christian Gilbertson , Eric B. Ford , Xavier Dumusque

A stable-frequency transmitter with relative radial acceleration to a receiver will show a change in received frequency over time, known as a "drift rate''. For a transmission from an exoplanet, we must account for multiple components of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Megan G. Li , Sofia Z. Sheikh , Christian Gilbertson , Matthias Y. He , Howard Isaacson , Steve Croft , Evan L. Sneed

The "search for extraterrestrial intelligence" (SETI) commensal surveys aim to scan the sky to find possible technosignatures from the extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). The mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI) is an important…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Yu-Chen Wang , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Zhi-Song Zhang , Cheqiu Lyu , Tingting Zhang , Tong-Jie Zhang , Dan Werthimer
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