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A proposal for enhancing technosignature search toward the Galactic center

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2025-08-13 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies Popular Physics

Abstract

We discuss the possibility of enhancing intelligent life searches toward the Galactic center. From the clockwork orbital motions of stars around the Sgr A{}^* black hole, we can determine the distance to the Galactic center at an exceptional accuracy, despite its remoteness 8.3\sim 8.3kpc. In addition, we can define precise reference epochs by selecting a prominent object such as the bright B-type star S2. These properties have a particular affinity for the coordinated signaling scheme which was hypothesized by Seto (2019) for systematically connecting intentional senders to searchers without a prior communication. If S2 is actually being used as a common reference clock, we can compress the search directions around the Galactic center by more than two orders of magnitude, with the scanning interval of 16\sim16yr.

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@article{arxiv.2404.00840,
  title  = {A proposal for enhancing technosignature search toward the Galactic center},
  author = {Naoki Seto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00840},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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