针对SETI目标KIC 8462852的短暂光学闪光搜寻
天体物理仪器与方法
2016-03-09 v2 高能天体物理现象
太阳与恒星天体物理
摘要
F型恒星KIC 8462852最近被认定为SETI（搜寻地外文明）观测的一个特殊目标。我们描述了一种光学SETI分析方法，并用以分析了VERITAS伽马射线天文台在2009至2015年间对KIC 8462852进行的九小时偶发存档观测。未发现脉冲光学信标存在的证据，其脉冲强度在地球上约为每平米1个光子以上。我们还讨论了成像大气切伦科夫望远镜阵列在搜寻极短时长光学瞬变源方面的潜在用途。
引用
@article{arxiv.1602.00987,
title = {A Search for Brief Optical Flashes Associated with the SETI Target KIC 8462852},
author = {A. U. Abeysekara and S. Archambault and A. Archer and W. Benbow and R. Bird and M. Buchovecky and J. H. Buckley and K. Byrum and J. V Cardenzana and M. Cerruti and X. Chen and J. L. Christiansen and L. Ciupik and W. Cui and H. J. Dickinson and J. D. Eisch and M. Errando and A. Falcone and D. J. Fegan and Q. Feng and J. P. Finley and H. Fleischhack and P. Fortin and L. Fortson and A. Furniss and G. H. Gillanders and S. Griffin and J. Grube and G. Gyuk and M. Huetten and N. Hakansson and D. Hanna and J. Holder and T. B. Humensky and C. A. Johnson and P. Kaaret and P. Kar and N. Kelley-Hoskins and M. Kertzman and D. Kieda and M. Krause and F. Krennrich and S. Kumar and M. J. Lang and T. T. Y. Lin and G. Maier and S. McArthur and A. McCann and K. Meagher and P. Moriarty and R. Mukherjee and D. Nieto and S. O'Brien and A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe and R. A. Ong and A. N. Otte and N. Park and J. S. Perkins and A. Petrashyk and M. Pohl and A. Popkow and E. Pueschel and J. Quinn and K. Ragan and G. Ratliff and P. T. Reynolds and G. T. Richards and E. Roache and M. Santander and G. H. Sembroski and K. Shahinyan and D. Staszak and I. Telezhinsky and J. V. Tucci and J. Tyler and S. Vincent and S. P. Wakely and O. M. Weiner and A. Weinstein and D. A. Williams and B. Zitzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00987},
year = {2016}
}
备注
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. Fixed a minor error in the title