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most citedDrift Rates of Narrowband Signals in Long-term SETI Observations for Exoplanets

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24 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Gaia DR3 Limits on Stellar Engine Technosignatures in Nearby Stars

Bo-Lun Huang, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Tong-Jie Zhang +1

An operating stellar engine that transfers momentum to its host star could produce an approximately persistent transverse acceleration during the Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) observin…

astro-ph.IM2026

Periodic Radio Technosignature Search toward 3I/ATLAS with FAST

Jian-Kang Li, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Tong-Jie Zhang +1

3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, provides a unique opportunity for targeted technosignature searches. We report a periodic radio te…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Calibrated Bayesian Search for Potential Chemical Technosignatures in Polluted White Dwarf

Bo-Lun Huang, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Tong-Jie Zhang

We present a meteorite-calibrated Bayesian framework for searching archival abundance records for chemical technosignatures--operationally, compositional patterns better explained…

astro-ph.IM2026

First Lunar Farside SETI Observations for Periodic Signals with the Low-frequency Radio Spectrometer of Chang'E-4 Mission

Jian-Kang Li, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Bo-Lun Huang +6

Chang'E-4 (CE4), the first mission to soft-land on the lunar farside, provides a unique opportunity for astronomical observations from an environment shielded from terrestrial radi…

astro-ph.IM2026★ 1 cited

Narrowband Radio Technosignature Search toward 3I/ATLAS with FAST

Jian-Kang Li, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Tong-Jie Zhang

3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object passing through the Solar System. In this work, we conduct narrowband radio technosignature search toward 3I/ATLAS using the Fiv…

astro-ph.SR2026

SETI Observations of k-Hz Periodic Radio Signals from Five Nearby Stars with FAST at L Band

Yu Hu, Bo-Lun Huang, Vishal Gajjar +3

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…

astro-ph.IM2026★ 1 cited

An Improved Machine Learning Approach for Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation in FAST-SETI Survey Archival Data

Li-Li Zhao, Xiao-Hang Luan, Xin Chao +6

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) commensal surveys aim to scan the sky to detect technosignatures from extraterrestrial life. A major challenge in SETI is the ef…

astro-ph.GA2026

WISE/CatWISE Constraints on Dysonian Waste-Heat Technosignatures in Nearby Galaxies

Bo-Lun Huang, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Tong-Jie Zhang

We search for galaxy-scale (Dysonian) waste heat in the mid-infrared using WISE. Starting from the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS), we cross-match to CatWISE2020 and AllWISE, apply st…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Dual-Backend Multibeam Position Switching Targeted SETI Observations toward Nearby Active Planet-Hosting Systems with FAST

Jian-Kang Li, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Pei Wang +1

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, lists the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as one of its…

astro-ph.IM2025

A Deep SETI Search for Technosignatures in the TRAPPIST-1 System with FAST

Guang-Yuan Song, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Bo-Lun Huang +3

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is one of its…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 5 cited

Multibeam SETI Observations toward Nearby M dwarfs with FAST

Xiao-Hang Luan, Bo-Lun Huang, Zhen-Zhao Tao +3

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) targeted searches aim to observe specific areas and objects to find possible technosignatures. Many SETI researches have focused…

astro-ph.GA2025

The S-PLUS Ultra-Short Survey: Photometric Re-calibration with the BEst STar Database

Xiaolu Li, Kai Xiao, Yang Huang +15

We present an independent validation and comprehensive re-calibration of S-PLUS Ultra-Short Survey (USS) DR1 12-band photometry using about 30,000--70,000 standard stars from the B…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Theoretical Radio Signals from Radio-Band Gravitational Waves Converted from the Neutron Star Magnetic Field

Wei Hong, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Peng He +1

Gravitational waves (GWs) can convert into electromagnetic waves in the presence of a magnetic field via the Gertsenshtein-Zeldovich (GZ) effect. The characteristics of the magneti…

astro-ph.EP2023

SETI at FAST in China

Tong-Jie Zhang, Bo-Lun Huang, Jian-Kang Li +4

Since the commencement of the first SETI observation in 2019, China's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program has garnered momentum through domestic support and internatio…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 10 cited

The most sensitive SETI observations toward Barnard's star with FAST

Zhen-Zhao Tao, Bo-Lun Huang, Xiao-Hang Luan +4

Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been mainly focused on nearby stars and their planets in recent years. Barnard's star is the second closest star system to the s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Galactic Interstellar Scintillation Observed from Four Globular Cluster Pulsars by FAST

Dandan Zhang, Zhenzhao Tao, Mao Yuan +9

We report detections of scintillation arcs for pulsars in globular clusters M5, M13 and M15 for the first time using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 10 cited

A solution to continuous RFI in narrowband radio SETI with FAST: The MultiBeam Point-source Scanning strategy

Bo-Lun Huang, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Tong-Jie Zhang

Narrowband radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) in the 21st century suffers severely from radio frequency interference (RFI), resulting in a high number of false p…

astro-ph.IM2023

A Search for Extraterrestrial Technosignatures in Archival FAST Survey Data Using a New Procedure

Yu-Chen Wang, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Zhi-Song Zhang +4

The "search for extraterrestrial intelligence" (SETI) commensal surveys aim to scan the sky to find possible technosignatures from the extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). The miti…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

Polarization Criterion in Targeted SETI Observation

Jian-Kang Li, Yu Chen, Zhen-Zhao Tao +5

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

astro-ph.EP2023★ 17 cited

Multibeam Blind Search of Targeted SETI Observations toward 33 Exoplanet Systems with FAST

Xiao-Hang Luan, Zhen-Zhao Tao, Hai-Chen Zhao +8

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to search for technosignatures associated with extraterrestrial life, such as engineered radio signals. In this paper, we app…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 22 cited

Sensitive Multi-beam Targeted SETI Observations towards 33 Exoplanet Systems with FAST

Zhen-Zhao Tao, Hai-Chen Zhao, Tong-Jie Zhang +19

As a major approach to looking for life beyond the Earth, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is committed to detecting technosignatures such as engineered radio si…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 22 cited

Drift Rates of Narrowband Signals in Long-term SETI Observations for Exoplanets

Jian-Kang Li, Haichen Zhao, Zhenzhao Tao +2

The Doppler shift of a radio signal is caused by the relative motion between the transmitter and receiver. The change in frequency of the signal over time is called drift rate. In…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 7 cited

Wide Bandwidth Observations of Pulsars C, D and J in 47 Tucanae

Lei Zhang, George Hobbs, Richard N. Manchester +13

We report the first wideband observations of pulsars C, D and J in the globular cluster 47Tucanae (NGC 104) using the Ultra-Wideband Low (UWL) receiver system recently installed on…

astro-ph.IM2019

Pulsar Candidate Selection Using Ensemble Networks for FAST Drift-Scan Survey

Hongfeng Wang, Weiwei Zhu, Ping Guo +13

The Commensal Radio Astronomy Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) Survey (CRAFTS) utilizes the novel drift-scan commensal survey mode of FAST and can gener…