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The Ĝ survey is back! @pseticenter.bsky.social's Olivia Curtis presents the pipeline we're going to use to drop the ceiling on our upper limits for KIII species on a galaxy-by-galaxy basis from the 50-80% of intercepted starlight in our previous work down to 4-20%.
arxiv.org/abs/2608.12458
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The Ĝ Infrared Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large Energy Supplies. V. When Galaxies Glow with Industry
We present the most robust stellar population synthesis (SPS)-based search for galaxy-spanning technological waste heat to date, applied to 129 nearby galaxies spanning a wide range of spectral energy...