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

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18 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

A Wavelet-Integrated Search Pipeline for Narrowband Technosignatures in FAST Observations of 33 Exoplanet Systems

Zi-Qi Li, Jian-Kang Li, Zhe-Wei Luo +14

Building on prior FAST targeted and blind SETI campaigns toward 33 exoplanet systems, we introduce a wavelet-integrated search pipeline for narrowband technosignature candidates in…

astro-ph.GA2026

Phase-Space Crystallization in Galactic Globular Clusters: A Gaia-Based Metric and Implications for Technosignature Searches

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

We develop a model-independent framework to quantify phase-space "crystallization", the degree of ordered radial and kinematic substructure, in 79 Galactic globular clusters using…

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.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.CO2023★ 1 cited

Cosmological neutrino N-body simulations of dark matter halo

Yu Chen, Chang-Zhi Lu, Juan Li +3

The study of massive neutrinos and their interactions is a critical aspect of contemporary cosmology. Recent advances in parallel computation and high-performance computing provide…

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.…