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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Earth's Solar Transit Zone

Heller, René; Pudritz, Ralph E.

Over the past few years, astronomers have detected thousands of planets and candidate planets by observing their periodic transits in front of their host stars. A related method, called transit spectroscopy, might soon allow studies of the chemical imprints of life in extrasolar planetary atmospheres. Here, we address the reciprocal question, name…