The radio search for technosignatures in the decade 2020-2030

TL;DR

This paper discusses the importance of expanding radio searches for extraterrestrial technosignatures during 2020-2030, emphasizing the potential scientific gains from modest budget increases.

Contribution

It highlights the need for increased support and resources to enhance the search for technosignatures across the galaxy in the coming decade.

Findings

Expanding searches can significantly increase detection chances.

Modest budget increases can enable broader and deeper searches.

Supporting technosignature searches is crucial for understanding extraterrestrial life.

Abstract

Advancing the scientific frontier in the search for life in the universe requires support of searches for both biosignatures and technosignatures. A modest budgetary increment can expand the search for life in the universe from primitive to complex life and from the solar neighborhood to the entire Galaxy.