- Margot, Jean-Luc;
- Li, Megan G;
- Pinchuk, Pavlo;
- Myhrvold, Nathan;
- Lesyna, Larry;
- Alcantara, Lea E;
- Andrakin, Megan T;
- Arunseangroj, Jeth;
- Baclet, Damien S;
- Belk, Madison H;
- Bhadha, Zerxes R;
- Brandis, Nicholas W;
- Carey, Robert E;
- Cassar, Harrison P;
- Chava, Sai S;
- Chen, Calvin;
- Chen, James;
- Cheng, Kellen T;
- Cimbri, Alessia;
- Cloutier, Benjamin;
- Combitsis, Jordan A;
- Couvrette, Kelly L;
- Coy, Brandon P;
- Davis, Kyle W;
- Delcayre, Antoine F;
- Du, Michelle R;
- Feil, Sarah E;
- Fu, Danning;
- Gilmore, Travis J;
- Grahill-Bland, Emery;
- Iglesias, Laura M;
- Juneau, Zoe;
- Karapetian, Anthony G;
- Karfakis, George;
- Lambert, Christopher T;
- Lazbin, Eric A;
- Li, Jian H;
- Li, Zhuofu Chester;
- Liskij, Nicholas M;
- Lopilato, Anthony V;
- Lu, Darren J;
- Ma, Detao;
- Mathur, Vedant;
- Minasyan, Mary H;
- Muller, Maxwell K;
- Nasielski, Mark T;
- Nguyen, Janice T;
- Nicholson, Lorraine M;
- Niemoeller, Samantha;
- Ohri, Divij;
- Padhye, Atharva U;
- Penmetcha, Supreethi V;
- Prakash, Yugantar;
- Qi, Xinyi Cindy;
- Rindt, Liam;
- Sahu, Vedant;
- Scally, Joshua A;
- Scott, Zefyr;
- Seddon, Trevor J;
- Shohet, Lara-Lynn V;
- Sinha, Anchal;
- Sinigiani, Anthony E;
- Song, Jiuxu;
- Stice, Spencer M;
- Tabucol, Nadine M;
- Uplisashvili, Andria;
- Vanga, Krishna;
- Vazquez, Amaury G;
- Vetushko, George;
- Villa, Valeria;
- Vincent, Maria;
- Waasdorp, Ian J;
- Wagaman, Ian B;
- Wang, Amanda;
- Wight, Jade C;
- Wong, Ella;
- Yamaguchi, Natsuko;
- Zhang, Zijin;
- Zhao, Junyang;
- Lynch, Ryan S
Abstract:
We conducted a search for narrowband radio signals over four observing sessions in 2020–2023 with the L-band receiver (1.15–1.73 GHz) of the 100 m diameter Green Bank Telescope. We pointed the telescope in the directions of 62 TESS Objects of Interest, capturing radio emissions from a total of ∼11,680 stars and planetary systems in the ∼9′ beam of the telescope. All detections were either automatically rejected or visually inspected and confirmed to be of anthropogenic nature. We also quantified the end-to-end efficiency of radio SETI pipelines with a signal injection and recovery analysis. The UCLA SETI pipeline recovers 94.0% of the injected signals over the usable frequency range of the receiver and 98.7% of the injections when regions of dense radio frequency interference are excluded. In another pipeline that uses incoherent sums of 51 consecutive spectra, the recovery rate is ∼15 times smaller at ∼6%. The pipeline efficiency affects calculations of transmitter prevalence and SETI search volume. Accordingly, we developed an improved Drake figure of merit and a formalism to place upper limits on transmitter prevalence that take the pipeline efficiency and transmitter duty cycle into account. Based on our observations, we can state at the 95% confidence level that fewer than 6.6% of stars within 100 pc host a transmitter that is continuously transmitting a narrowband signal with an equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIRP) > 1013 W. For stars within 20,000 ly, the fraction of stars with detectable transmitters (EIRP > 5 × 1016 W) is at most 3 × 10−4. Finally, we showed that the UCLA SETI pipeline natively detects the signals detected with AI techniques by Ma et al.