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astro-ph.IM2023

A VERITAS/Breakthrough Listen Search for Optical Technosignatures

Atreya Acharyya, Colin Adams, Avery Archer +65

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is conducting a program using multiple telescopes around the world to search for "technosignatures": artificial transmitters of extraterrestrial…

astro-ph.IM2023

PeV Gamma-ray Astronomy With Panoramic Optical SETI Telescopes

Nikolas Korzoun, Wystan Benbow, Aaron Brown +13

The Panoramic Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PANOSETI) experiment is designed to detect pulsed optical signals on nanosecond timescales. PANOSETI is therefore sensitive…

astro-ph.IM2022

Panoramic SETI: Program Update and High-Energy Astrophysics Applications

Jérôme Maire, Shelley A. Wright, Jamie Holder +17

Optical SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) instruments that can explore the very fast time domain, especially with large sky coverage, offer an opportunity for new dis…

astro-ph.IM2022

A Search for Radio Technosignatures at the Solar Gravitational Lens Targeting Alpha Centauri

Nick Tusay, Macy J. Huston, Cayla M. Dedrick +17

Stars provide an enormous gain for interstellar communications at their gravitational focus, perhaps as part of an interstellar network. If the Sun is part of such a network, there…

astro-ph.IM2023

Exploring the Potential of the Pulsed Laser onboard the CALIPSO Satellite to Improve Calibration with VERITAS

Gregory Foote

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) are used to detect bright nanosecond-duration flashes of optical light originating from interactions of cosmic/gamma-rays in the at…

astro-ph.HE2023

VERITAS discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from S3 1227+25 and multiwavelength observations

Atreya Acharyya, Colin Adams, Avery Archer +68

We report the detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the blazar S3 1227+25 (VER J1230+253) with the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)…