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SETI Revolutionized: Cutting-Edge Technique Filters Genuine Alien Signals From Terrestrial Interference

July 19, 2023
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SETI Revolutionized: Cutting-Edge Technique Filters Genuine Alien Signals From Terrestrial Interference
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In a significant advancement for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have devised a new technique for detecting potential alien radio signals. This technique involves analyzing signals for signs of having traversed interstellar space, thereby ruling out Earth-based radio interference.

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a novel technique to boost the search for extraterrestrial life. This method distinguishes potential alien signals from Earth-based interference by analyzing their travel through interstellar space.

Enhanced Technique for Detecting Extraterrestrial Life

Scientists have introduced a new methodology for detecting and validating potential radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations within our galaxy. This advancement in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) marks a significant leap forward that will significantly boost confidence in any future detection of alien life.

Today’s SETI searches largely rely on Earth-based radio telescopes, which are susceptible to terrestrial and satellite radio interference. False signals, which mimic technosignatures from extraterrestrial civilizations, could come from a variety of sources, including Starlink satellites, cellphones, microwaves, and even car engines. This kind of interference has created false hopes since the inception of the first dedicated SETI program in 1960.

Tackling Interference in the Search for Alien Life

To differentiate genuine signals from false ones, researchers typically shift the telescope’s focus to a different part of the sky, then revisit the initial spot a few times to ascertain if the signal was not a one-off. Nonetheless, the signal could still be a strange emission from Earth.

This problem is addressed by an innovative new technique devised by researchers at the Breakthrough Listen project at the University of California, Berkeley. The method scrutinizes signals for signs of having traversed through interstellar space, hence eliminating the possibility of the signal being mere Earth-based radio interference.

Green Bank Telescope

The Green Bank Telescope, nestled in a radio-quiet valley in West Virginia, is a major listening post for Breakthrough Listen. Credit: GBO / AUI / NSF

New Approach Boosts SETI Search

Breakthrough Listen, the most comprehensive SETI search project, monitors the northern and southern skies for technosignatures using radio telescopes. It also focuses on thousands of individual stars in the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, which is considered the most likely direction for a civilization to send a signal.

“I think it’s one of the biggest advances in radio SETI in a long time,” said Andrew Siemion, principal investigator for Breakthrough Listen and director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC), which operates the world’s longest-running SETI program. “It’s the first time where we have a technique that, if we just have one signal, potentially could allow us to intrinsically differentiate it from radio frequency interference. That’s pretty amazing, because if you consider something like the Wow! signal, these are often a one-off.”

The “Wow!” Signal and the Potential of the New Technique

Siemion was referring to a famed 72-second narrowband signal observed in 1977 by a radio telescope in Ohio. The astronomer who discovered the signal, which looked like nothing produced by normal astrophysical processes, wrote “Wow!” in red ink on the data printout. The signal has not been observed since.

“The first ET detection may very well be a one-off, where we only see one signal,” Siemion said. “And if a signal doesn’t repeat, there’s not a lot that we can say about that. And obviously, the most likely explanation for it is radio frequency interference, as is the most likely explanation for the Wow! signal. Having this new technique and the instrumentation capable of recording data at sufficient fidelity such that you could see the effect of the interstellar medium, or ISM, is incredibly powerful.”

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The 64-meter Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, allows Breakthrough Listen to monitor the southern sky. The telescope is operated by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). Credit: CSIRO

Research Behind the New Technique

The technique is described in a paper published on July 17 in The Astrophysical Journal by UC Berkeley graduate student Bryan Brzycki; Siemion; Brzycki’s thesis adviser Imke de Pater, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of astronomy; and colleagues at Cornell University and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

Siemion noted that, in the future, Breakthrough Listen will be employing the so-called scintillation technique, along with sky location, during its SETI observations, including with the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia — the world’s largest steerable radio telescope — and the MeerKAT array in South Africa.

Distinguishing a Natural Signal From ET

For more than 60 years, SETI researchers have scanned the skies in search of signals that look different from the typical radio emissions of stars and cataclysmic events, such as supernovas. One key distinction is that natural cosmic sources of radio waves produce a broad range of wavelengths — that is, broadband radio waves — whereas technical civilizations, like our own, produce narrowband radio signals. Think radio static versus a tuned-in FM station.

Because of the huge background of narrowband radio bursts from human activity on Earth, finding a signal from outer space is like looking for a needle in a haystack. So far, no narrowband radio signals from outside our solar system have been confirmed, though Breakthrough Listen found one interesting candidate — dubbed BLC1 — in 2020. Later analysis determined that it was almost certainly due to radio interference, Siemion said.

Siemion and his colleagues realized, however, that real signals from extraterrestrial civilizations should exhibit features caused by passage through the ISM that could help discriminate between Earth- and space-based radio signals. Thanks to past research describing how the cold plasma in the interstellar medium, primarily free electrons, affect signals from radio sources such as pulsars, astronomers now have a good idea how the ISM affects narrowband radio signals. Such signals tend to rise and fall in amplitude over time — that is, they scintillate. This is because the signals are slightly refracted, or bent, by the intervening cold plasma, so that when the radio waves eventually reach Earth by different paths, the waves interfere, both positively and negatively.

Our atmosphere produces a similar scintillation, or twinkle, that affects the pinprick of optical light from a star. Planets, which are not point sources of light, do not twinkle.

Brzycki developed a computer algorithm, available as a Python script, that analyzes the scintillation of narrowband signals and plucks out those that dim and brighten over periods of less than a minute, indicating they’ve passed through the ISM.

“This implies that we could use a suitably tuned pipeline to unambiguously identify artificial emission from distant sources vis-a-vis terrestrial interference,” de Pater said. “Further, even if we didn’t use this technique to find a signal, this technique could, in certain cases, confirm a signal originating from a distant source, rather than locally. This work represents the first new method of signal confirmation beyond the spatial reobservation filter in the history of radio SETI.”

Bryan Brzycki

Graduate student Bryan Brzycki at the Green Bank Telescope, where he is using a new scintillation-based technique to vet radio signals potentially coming from alien civilizations elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: Bryan Brzycki, Breakthrough Listen

Testing the New Technique

Brzycki is now conducting radio observations at the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to show that the technique can quickly weed out Earth-based radio signals and perhaps even detect scintillation in a narrowband signal — a technosignature candidate.

“Maybe we can identify this effect within individual observations and see that attenuation and brightening and actually say that the signal is undergoing that effect,” he said. “It’s another tool that we have available now.”

The technique will be useful only for signals that originate more than about 10,000 light years from Earth, since a signal must travel through enough of the ISM to exhibit detectable scintillation. Anything originating nearby — the BLC-1 signal, for example, seemed to be coming from our nearest star, Proxima Centauri — would not exhibit this effect.

Reference: “On Detecting Interstellar Scintillation in Narrowband Radio SETI” by Bryan Brzycki, Andrew P. V. Siemion, Imke de Pater, James M. Cordes, Vishal Gajjar, Brian Lacki and Sofia Sheikh, 17 July 2023, The Astrophysical Journal.
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acdee0

Other co-authors of the paper are James Cordes of Cornell, Brian Lacki of BSRC and Vishal Gajjar and Sofia Sheikh of both BSRC and the SETI Institute. Breakthrough Listen is managed by the Breakthrough Initiatives, a program sponsored by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.

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