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The FAST-SETI Milky Way Globular Cluster Survey. I. A Pilot Multibeam On-the-fly Search of Five Globular Clusters at the L Band

  • Authors: Bo-Lun Huang, 博伦 黄, Zhen-Zhao Tao, 振钊 陶, Tong-Jie Zhang, 同杰 张, Vishal Gajjar

Bo-Lun Huang et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Simulated appearance of a geometrically consistent narrowband signal under MBPS scanning. Each subpanel (M08, M02, M01, M05, M14) represents one beam of a single beam group (BG) during a raster scan, showing normalized power vs. time and relative frequency from 1300 MHz. The injected tone drifts at ﹩\dot{\nu }=-0.41﹩ Hz s−1 and is visible sequentially as the main lobe of each beam sweeps over the source location. The recurrence pattern, ∼115 s timing separations, and consistent drift rate satisfy the MBPS geometric criteria (C1-C4): the signal appears only inside gOTWs, does not illuminate all beams simultaneously, recurs with the correct in-stripe order, and maintains a single drift-rate solution with amplitudes following the beam-response envelope. This example illustrates what a genuine sky-localized technosignature would look like under the FAST MBPS observation strategy.

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