Nailing down exoplanet orbits could be key to finding ET. Here's why

Very interesting 10 page report cited in this article and reading, Developing a Drift Rate Distribution for Technosignature Searches of Exoplanets, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acf83d/pdf

My note, from the conclusion. "Sheikh et al. (2019) suggested limits of ±200 nHz for radio technosignature searches. Exoplanet parameters from the NASA Exoplanet Archive yield 99% of drift rates in the range ±53 nHz. A simulated population of exoplanets motivated by population models (Mulders et al. 2018; He et al. 2019) yields 99% of drift rates between ±0.44 (0.27) nHz assuming high
(low) eccentricities. These simulations indicate that a more complete survey of exoplanets that encompasses a wider distribution of inclinations would significantly lower the drift rate distribution of known exoplanets to the ±0.5 nHz range. The implications of these findings may greatly increase the
efficiency of SETI searches..."

It would be interesting to show from the NASA exoplanet archive, if any of the exoplanets listed would be a good place for SETI searches, https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/

Space.com article referenced, https://www.space.com/30172-six-most-earth-like-alien-planets.html

At present, I have not seen any exoplanet confirmed as truly earthlike in the 2 sites I use.


 

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