A Quantitative Assessment of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent Civilization in the Galaxy and the Case of FRB-Like Signals

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-6-2020

Publication Title

Frontiers of Physics

Volume

15

Issue

5

First page number:

1

Last page number:

8

Abstract

A formula is proposed to quantitatively estimate the signal emission rate of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent civilizations (CETIs) in the Galaxy. I suggest that one possible type of CETI signal would be brief radio bursts similar to fast radio bursts (FRBs). A dedicated search for FRB-like artificial signals in the Galaxy for decades may pose a meaningful upper limit on the emission rate of these signals by CETIs. The Fermi-Hart paradox is answered in terms of not having enough observing times for this and other types of signals. Whether humans should send FRB-like signals in the far future is briefly discussed.

Keywords

Fast radio bursts; Astrobilogy

Disciplines

External Galaxies

Language

English

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