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Novel Technosignatures
A. A. Jackson, Gregory Benford
Technosignatures can represent a sign of technology that may infer the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. This had usually meant searches for extraterrestrial…
A Gravitational Wave Transmitter
A. A. Jackson, Gregory Benford
We consider how an advanced civilization might build a radiator to send gravitational waves signals by using small black holes. Micro black holes on the scale of centimeters but wi…
Searching for Cost Optimized Interstellar Beacons
Gregory Benford, James Benford, Dominic Benford
What would SETI Beacon transmitters be like if built by civilizations with a variety of motivations, but who cared about cost? We studied in a companion paper how, for fixed power…
Messaging with Cost Optimized Interstellar Beacons
James Benford, Gregory Benford, Dominic Benford
This paper considers galactic scale Beacons from the point of view of expense to a builder on Earth. For fixed power density in the far field, what is the cost-optimum interstellar…