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Are the Dyson rings around pulsars detectable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2017

Z. Osmanov
Z. Osmanov*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, Free University of Tbilisi, 0183 Tbilisi, GA, USA
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e-mail: z.osmanov@freeuni.edu.ge
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Abstract

In the previous paper ring (Osmanov 2016) (henceforth Paper-I) we have extended the idea of Freeman Dyson and have shown that a supercivilization has to use ring-like megastructures around pulsars instead of a spherical shell. In this work we reexamine the same problem in the observational context and we show that facilities of modern infrared (IR) telescopes (Very Large Telescope Interferometer and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)) might efficiently monitor the nearby zone of the solar system and search for the IR Dyson-rings up to distances of the order of 0.2 kpc, corresponding to the current highest achievable angular resolution, 0.001 mas. In this case the total number of pulsars in the observationally reachable area is about 64 ± 21. We show that pulsars from the distance of the order of ~ 1 kpc are still visible for WISE as point-like sources but in order to confirm that the object is the neutron star, one has to use the ultraviolet telescopes, which at this moment cannot provide enough sensitivity.

Keywords

Dyson ringextraterrestriallife-detectionpulsarsSETI
Type
Research Article
Information
International Journal of Astrobiology , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 112 - 115
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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