The TESS Mission: A search for ET
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- As one of the most advanced photometric survey instruments, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has observed tens of millions of stars since 2018. Many of these stars display variable light output caused by various natural sources, including transits by surrounding exoplanets. With thousands of planet systems now known thanks to TESS and other platforms, is it possible that any of them could harbor life, and even more interestingly, intelligent and technological life?
Theories posit that if intelligent civilizations exist in our galaxy, they might put artificial energy harvesting structures into orbit around their host star. Astronomers believe it’s possible to detect this phenomenon by watching stellar brightness dim each time a structure passes in front of the star. One of the best places to find so-called alien megstructures is the uniquely large dataset provided by TESS. This NASA mission offers additional opportunities to search for advanced extraterrestrial life associated with already known exoplanets. As part of the Breakthrough Listen Initiative, SETI scientists observe each TESS transiting planet system using the Green Bank Telescope and the Allen Telescope Array in the hope of detecting a radio transmitter relatively nearby in the Galaxy.
To explore the possibility of finding technosignatures within the TESS dataset, we invited two scientists to discuss their recent work. Ann Marie Cody, Principal Investigator with the SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center, has received funding from NASA to survey the TESS data set to detect a megastructures, similar to Dyson spheres, in orbit around those star systems. Noah Franz, a researcher at Berkeley SETI and Siena College, led an article reporting on the search for technosignatures in radio using the Green Bank Telescope for several targets of the TESS catalog.
Together with Franck Marchis, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute and Chief Scientific Officer at Unistellar, the team will discuss the advancement of these techniques in light of today’s known 5,000 confirmed exoplanets and 4,000 TESS candidate exoplanets. The researchers will examine the impact of their research in the framework of astrobiology and how any discoveries of an odd signal or a weird signature could bring meaningful scientific information, even if it is not (yet) E.T.
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OTher things to look for (if detectable) could be, get the orbital distance from the doppler shift, also check if signal disappears with alien daily cycle.
I have info
Wat about if the signal from earth?frbs
I have sample
I'm having regular ultrasound scans.
ב''ה, or "how USSF eminent domained all intellectual property"
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Just watched a recent sci fi movie called Clara that had this exact topic as the plot. Amazing movie! Go watch it! l
¿Donde podemos verla?
@@nicosmind3 "where can we see it?" I don't know if it is available in Spanish. A couple of years ago I streamed it with Roku on Tubi, but no longer there. Now it seems to be free on Crackle and Plex, and for rent from other sources. The 2018 movie is about an astronomer searching for alien life who meets an artist named Clara. I believe he even mentioned TESS once. A nice movie, but of course it is no Contact or Arrival. There is also a 2002 movie named Clara, but it is something completely different.
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SETI is just a fction. Life is unique. Read Ernst Mayr.
Prove it
@@Its0kToBeWhite Read the book Rare Earth, by Peter Ward.
And also Alone in the universe.
@@science212 can you give bullet points? I do believe in the rare Earth hypothesis, but if it can happen once it can happen again. Even if it's one planet in a trillion. That could mean there's more life in our galaxy. It would also mean barren galaxies at 1 in a trillion.
We'll have a better idea when we learn about planet atmospheres. If Venus is the norm then we're rare. But Mars and Earth have very thin atmospheres in comparison to Venus. So that's a 2 to 1 chance just looking at our solar system in isolation. Luckily though within decades we'll have way more data
Seti is a fake... they keep you looking while we already found them
Show the world your evidence tomorrow so
@@alanmahoney9134 they have thousands of pictures and other decent evidence. But you sceptics would still say it's fake even they land on the white house lawn and see them up close, probably will still say it's not aliens
And also if the best military technology with a trillion dollar budget, and some of the best jets/pilots,. In the world and 70s years of research and still not know what they are. And sceptics listen to a video game designer (Mick West) and not highly trained fighter pilots can not tell a bird from a camera glares lol?
SETI is privately funded, it's not government and hasn't got any government connections
@@jediknight73 when you listen to those one or two fighter pilots in isolation they're very convincing, but the argument between Mick West and that one guy and Mick destroyed him. You can learn optics you know and it's not that complicated. The fighter pilot didn't even attempt to address most of West's arguments and he was very unconvincing in his replies.
And that's a big shame for me, have loved UFOs etc all my life, and believe there's something out there. Just unfortunately ain't seen anything convincing as yet. Bob Lazar is more convincing after I've learned further details about him but still not convinced by him either. Like a few of the things he says don't make much sense.