Possibility of a coordinated signaling scheme in the Galaxy and SETI experiments [IMA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00536


We discuss a Galaxy-wide coordinated signaling scheme with which a SETI observer needs to examine a tiny fraction of the sky. The target sky direction is determined as a function of time, based on high-precision measurements of a progenitor of a conspicuous astronomical event such as a coalescence of a double neutron star binary. In various respects, such a coordinated scheme would be advantageous for both transmitters and receivers, and might be widely prevailing as a tacit adjustment. For this scheme, the planned space gravitational-wave detector LISA and its follow-on missions have a potential to narrow down the target sky area by a factor of $10^{3\textit{-}4}$, and could have a large impact on future SETI experiments.

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N. Seto
Tue, 2 Apr 19
8/90

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL