Can China's FAST telescope detect extraterrestrial von-Neumann probes?
Abstract
In the present paper we consider the Type-2.x and Type-3.x extraterrestrial von-Neumann probes and study the problem of their detectability by the world's largest radio telescope: the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST). For this purpose we estimate the radio spectral parameters and analyse the obtained results in the context of technical characteristics of FAST. As a result, it is shown that FAST can detect as galactic as well as extragalactic self-replicating probes with high precision.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2021
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2110.00406
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2110.00406
- Bibcode:
- 2021arXiv211000406O
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Popular Physics;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 0 figures