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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

Radio tomographic imaging (RTI) is an emerging technology for localization of physical objects in a geographical area covered by wireless networks. With attenuation measurements collected at spatially distributed sensors, RTI capitalizes on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Donghoon Lee , Georgios B. Giannakis

We present a likelihood profile stacking technique based on the {\it Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) data to explore the $\gamma$-ray characteristics of {\it Fermi}-LAT undetected astrophysical populations. The pipeline is applied to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-10 Vaidehi S. Paliya , Alberto Dominguez , Marco Ajello , Anna Franckowiak , Dieter Hartmann

We present the design of a novel instrument tuned to detect transiting exoplanet atmospheres. The instrument, which we call the exoplanet transmission spectroscopy imager (ETSI), makes use of a new technique called common-path multi-band…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Mary Anne Limbach , Luke M. Schmidt , D. L. DePoy , Jeffrey C. Mason , Mike Scobey , Pat Brown , Chelsea Taylor , Jennifer L. Marshall

Self-triggered radio detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos offers a scalable and cost-effective approach for next-generation astroparticle observatories, but remains challenging under realistic radio-frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Pengfei Zhang , Xin Xu , Hanrui Wang , Xing Xu , Bohao Duan , Feng Wei , Hongwei Pan , Xishui Tian , Yi Zhang , Pengxiong Ma , Olivier Martineau-Huynh

The detection of Earth-like exoplanets in the habitable zone of their stars, and their spectroscopic characterization in a search for biosignatures, requires starlight suppression that exceeds the current best ground-based performance by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-26 Brendan Crill , Nicholas Siegler

Radio observations provide a window into a planet's interior and play a crucial role in studying its atmosphere and surface, key factors to find potential habitability. The discovery of thousands of exoplanets, together with advances in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Mahdiyar Mousavi-Sadr , Fatemeh S. Tabatabaei , Alexander Wolszczan , Ghassem Gozaliasl

The search for atmospheric biosignatures in Earth-like exoplanets is one of the most pressing challenges in observational astrobiology. Detecting biogenic gases in terrestrial planets requires high-resolution observations and long…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 David S. Duque-Castaño , Jorge I. Zuluaga , Lauren Flor-Torres

For centuries, astronomers have discussed the possibility of inhabited worlds - from Herschel's 18th-century observations suggesting Mars may host life, to the systematic search for technosignatures that began in the 1960s using radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Beatriz Villarroel , Wesley A. Watters , Alina Streblyanska , Enrique Solano , Stefan Geier , Lars Mattsson

In this paper, we propose a novel method for distinguishing extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) signals from radio frequency interference (RFI) by leveraging polarization features. We exploit the sinusoidal variation of the linearly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Jian-Kang Li , Yu Chen , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Xiao-Hang Luan , Tong-Jie Zhang , Bo-Lun Huang , Xiao-Hui Sun , Vishal Gajjar

Total-power radiometry with individual meter-wave antennas is a potentially effective way to study the Cosmic Dawn ($z\sim20$) through measurement of sky brightness arising from the $21$~cm transition of neutral hydrogen, provided this can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Marta Spinelli , Gianni Bernardi , Hugh Garsden , Lincoln J. Greehill , Anastasia Fialkov , Jayce Dowell , Daniel C. Price

The dynamical evolution and radiative properties of luminous radio galaxies and quasars of the FRII type, are well understood. As a result, through the use of detailed modeling of the observed radio emission of such sources, one can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Anna Wojtowicz , Lukasz Stawarz , Jerzy Machalski , Luisa Ostorero

One of the most interesting questions that astronomy can hope to answer is: are we alone in our Milky Way galaxy? A detection of an electromagnetic (EM) signal generated by an extraterrestrial technological intelligence, or the presence in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 B. Zuckerman

Arguments are reviewed in support of the hypothesis that ET would more likely send physical probes to surveil our Solar System and communicate with Earth than to communicate from afar with interstellar radio, infrared or laser beacons.…

Popular Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 John Gertz

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) can be used to detect and study gravitational waves in the nanohertz band (i.e., wavelengths of order light-years). This requires high-precision, decades-long data sets from sensitive, instrumentally stable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 NANOGrav Collaboration

Radio searches for extraterrestrial intelligence have mainly targeted the discovery of narrowband continuous-wave beacons and artificially dispersed broadband bursts. Periodic pulse trains, in comparison to the above technosignature…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-05 Akshay Suresh , Vishal Gajjar , Pranav Nagarajan , Sofia Z. Sheikh , Andrew P. V. Siemion , Matt Lebofsky , David H. E. MacMahon , Danny C. Price , Steve Croft

The broad-bandwidth capabilities of next generation telescopes such as the JVLA mean that the spectrum of any given source varies significantly within the bandwidth of any given observation. Detailed spectral analysis taking this variation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-18 Jeremy Harwood , Martin Hardcastle , Judith Croston , Joanna Goodger

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

The discovery of the ubiquity of habitable extrasolar planets, combined with revolutionary advances in instrumentation and observational capabilities, have ushered in a renaissance in the millenia-old quest to answer our most profound…