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| author | Li, Jian-Kang Tao, Zhen-Zhao Zhang, Tong-Jie |
| author_facet | Li, Jian-Kang Tao, Zhen-Zhao Zhang, Tong-Jie |
| contents | 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object passing through the Solar System. In this work, we conduct narrowband radio technosignature search toward 3I/ATLAS using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) L-band multibeam receiver from October 2025 to January 2026 on 4 separate dates (i.e. Mars closest, perihelion, Earth closest and flew away from Earth, respectively). We carry out frequency-drifting signal searching with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) over 10 within 1.05-1.45 GHz via \texttt{bliss} pipeline. These signal hits are grouping into event by beam, frequency and drift rate matching, the events are then filtered by cluster analysis and drift rate cut-off. We also characterized the events by their significance in SNR, structure tensor as well as principal component analysis (PCA). No credible narrowband radio technosignature are detected from 3I/ATLAS after visual inspections. The null results place constraints on the presence of transmitters above $2.862\times 10^{-3}$ W. We further introduce a Bayesian inference framework to constraints on the existence probability and characteristic power of hypothetical transmitters using physically motivated priors to bracket plausible transmitter scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | Narrowband Radio Technosignature Search toward 3I/ATLAS with FAST Li, Jian-Kang Tao, Zhen-Zhao Zhang, Tong-Jie Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object passing through the Solar System. In this work, we conduct narrowband radio technosignature search toward 3I/ATLAS using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) L-band multibeam receiver from October 2025 to January 2026 on 4 separate dates (i.e. Mars closest, perihelion, Earth closest and flew away from Earth, respectively). We carry out frequency-drifting signal searching with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) over 10 within 1.05-1.45 GHz via \texttt{bliss} pipeline. These signal hits are grouping into event by beam, frequency and drift rate matching, the events are then filtered by cluster analysis and drift rate cut-off. We also characterized the events by their significance in SNR, structure tensor as well as principal component analysis (PCA). No credible narrowband radio technosignature are detected from 3I/ATLAS after visual inspections. The null results place constraints on the presence of transmitters above $2.862\times 10^{-3}$ W. We further introduce a Bayesian inference framework to constraints on the existence probability and characteristic power of hypothetical transmitters using physically motivated priors to bracket plausible transmitter scenarios. |
| title | Narrowband Radio Technosignature Search toward 3I/ATLAS with FAST |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19023 |