8 papers
The Search for Technosignatures: a Review of Possibilities
Clément Vidal, Benji L. Fields, Damian R. Sowinski +19
This paper aims to review the diverse range of technosignatures that have been proposed in the literature. We organize the review by scales, starting carefully from Earth, then zoo…
Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey. IV. Lens Mass and Distance Measurements
Sean K. Terry, Etienne Bachelet, Farzaneh Zohrabi +54
As part of the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS), the Nancy Grace Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES) will use microlensing to discover cold outer planets and free-float…
SynthPop: A New Framework for Synthetic Milky Way Population Generation
Jonas Klüter, Macy J. Huston, Abigail Aronica +6
We present SynthPop, a new open source, modular population synthesis Galactic modeling software to simulate catalogs of Milky Way stars along any sightline outward from the Sun. Mo…
The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey
Adam A. Miller, Natasha S. Abrams, Greg Aldering +75
We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics…
Earth Detecting Earth: At what distance could Earth's constellation of technosignatures be detected with present-day technology?
Sofia Z. Sheikh, Macy J. Huston, Pinchen Fan +5
The field of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) searches for ``technosignatures'' that could provide the first detection of life beyond Earth through the technolog…
On Finding Black Holes in Photometric Microlensing Surveys
Zofia Kaczmarek, Peter McGill, Scott E. Perkins +5
There are expected to be millions of isolated black holes in the Galaxy resulting from the death of massive stars. Measuring the abundance and properties of this remnant population…