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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Transit Lightcurve Signatures of Artificial Objects · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/astro-ph_0503580/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/astro-ph_0503580/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Transit Lightcurve Signatures of Artificial Objects — mentioned by brownbat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10917843</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:astro-ph_0503580:10917843</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:32:54 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; As far as I know it has been purely layperson speculation Well... almost. It was originally suggested (as a highly unlikely but testable hypothesis) by astronomer Jason Wright. Then the press completely distorted his original point beyond recognition. Methods for using Kepler data to identify artificial megastructures is the subject of research by several astronomers, including Luc Arnold (French National Centre for Scientific Research), Jason Wright (Penn State), and Geoff Marcy (UC Berkeley). Here&amp;#x27;s a representative paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503580 Luc Arnold wrote a paper…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/astro-ph_0503580/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>astro-ph</category></item><item><title>Transit Lightcurve Signatures of Artificial Objects — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10423412</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:astro-ph_0503580:10423412</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2015 02:56:54 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Transit Lightcurve Signatures of Artificial Objects&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/astro-ph_0503580/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>astro-ph</category></item></channel></rss>
