The Future of SETI by Radio and Optics
A special issue of Galaxies (ISSN 2075-4434).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 687
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: cosmology; SETI
Interests: molecular clouds; turbulence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“Are we alone?” The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) aims to answer this profound astronomical question and seeks to address the possibility of the presence of technological civilizations beyond the Earth. Apart from examining the environments in our solar system and detecting biosignatures in the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets, the third main approach to searching for life beyond Earth is detecting technosignatures of extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI). Searching for engineering radio signals discernible from natural astrophysical processes is known as SETI. Some previous SETI efforts have been made by the Green Bank and Parkes telescopes. However, no signal has been identified so far. Recent discoveries of habitable Earth-like exoplanets provide abundant targets of interest. In 2020, astronomers in China performed SETI’s first observations with FAST’s newly commissioned 19 beam receiver.
In this Special Issue, papers should focus on theoretical prediction and observational results of SETI by both radio and optics by all telescopes over the world and include proposals of SEI in the future. All papers should not have been published previously in any other journals.
Prof. Dr. Tong-Jie Zhang
Dr. Lei Qian
Dr. Zhen-Zhao Tao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- astrobiology
- extraterrestrial intelligence
- astronomical instrumentation
- stars
- pulsars
- planets and satellites
- radio frequency interference (RFI)
- optics
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