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| Opportunities to search for extraterrestrial intelligence with the FAST | |
Li, Di1,2; Gajjar, Vishal3; Wang, Pei1; Siemion, Andrew3,4,5,6; Zhang, Zhi-Song1,2; Zhang, Hai-Yan1,2; Yue, You-Ling1,2; Zhu, Yan1,2 ; Jin, Cheng-Jin1,2; Li, Shi-Yu2; Berger, Sabrina3; Brzycki, Bryan3; Cobb, Jeff7; Croft, Steve3; Czech, Daniel3; DeBoer, David3; DeMarines, Julia3; Drew, Jamie8; Enriquez, J. Emilio3,5; Gizani, Nectaria3,9; Korpela, Eric J.7; Isaacson, Howard3,10; Lebofsky, Matthew3; Lacki, Brian3; MacMahon, David H. E.3; Nanez, Morgan3; Niu, Chen-Hui1,2; Pei, Xin2,11; Price, Danny C.3,12; Werthimer, Dan3; Worden, Pete8; Zhang, Yunfan Gerry3; Zhang, Tong-Jie13,14
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| 2020-05-01 | |
| Source Publication | RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
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| ISSN | 1674-4527 |
| Volume | 20Issue:5Pages:12 |
| Abstract | The discovery of ubiquitous habitable extrasolar planets, combined with revolutionary advances in instrumentation and observational capabilities, has ushered in a renaissance in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Large scale SETI activities are now underway at numerous international facilities. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the largest single-aperture radio telescope in the world, and is well positioned to conduct sensitive searches for radio emission indicative of exo-intelligence. SETI is one of the five key science goals specified in the original FAST project plan. A collaboration with the Breakthrough Listen Initiative was initiated in 2016 with a joint statement signed both by Dr. Jun Yan, the then director of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), and Dr. Peter Worden, Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In this paper, we highlight some of the unique features of FAST that will allow for novel SETI observations. We identify and describe three different signal types indicative of a technological source, namely, narrow band, wide-band artificially dispersed and modulated signals. Here, we propose observations with FAST to achieve sensitivities never before explored. For nearby exoplanets, such as TESS targets, FAST will be sensitive to an EIRP of 1.9 x 10(11) W, well within the reach of current human technology. For the Andromeda Galaxy, FAST will be able to detect any Kardashev type II or more advanced civilization there. |
| Corresponding Author | Li, Di(dili@nao.cas.cn) |
| Keyword | Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope |
| DOI | 10.1088/1674-4527/20/5/78 |
| Indexed By | SCI ; SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS Keyword | BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN ; PROJECT PHOENIX ; RADIO-BURST |
| WOS Research Area | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
| WOS Subject | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
| WOS ID | WOS:000536710300001 |
| Publisher | NATL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES, CHIN ACAD SCIENCES |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.xao.ac.cn/handle/45760611-7/3492 |
| Collection | 射电天文研究室_数字技术实验室 |
| Corresponding Author | Li, Di |
| Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Astron Observ, CAS Key Lab Fast, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 4.SETT Inst, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA 5.Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Dept Astrophys, IMAPP, Nijmegen, Netherlands 6.Univ Malta, Inst Space Sci & Astron, Msida, Malta 7.Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 8.NASA Res Pk, Breakthrough Initiatives, Moffett Field, CA 94043 USA 9.Hellenic Open Univ, Sch Sci & Technol, Perivola Patron, Greece 10.Univ Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia 11.Chinese Acad Sci, Xinjiang Astron Observ, Urumqi 830011, Peoples R China 12.Swinburne Univ Technol, Ctr Astrophys & Supercomp, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia 13.Beijing Normal Univ, Dept Astron, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China 14.Dezhou Univ, Inst Astron Sci, Duhou 253023, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Li, Di,Gajjar, Vishal,Wang, Pei,et al. Opportunities to search for extraterrestrial intelligence with the FAST[J]. RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS,2020,20(5):12. |
| APA | Li, Di.,Gajjar, Vishal.,Wang, Pei.,Siemion, Andrew.,Zhang, Zhi-Song.,...&Zhang, Tong-Jie.(2020).Opportunities to search for extraterrestrial intelligence with the FAST.RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS,20(5),12. |
| MLA | Li, Di,et al."Opportunities to search for extraterrestrial intelligence with the FAST".RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS 20.5(2020):12. |
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