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\n Simulated multiband light-curve populations in the Cchroma\u2013Ccross diagnostic plane. Left: noise-dominated, natural, and coherent variability classes (N \u2248 167 each, 500 total); ellipses show population covariance, open circles mark centroid-nearest examples. Right: normalised Rubin\/LSST g, r, i light curves for those examples; coherent case shows stable cross-band structure, natural case shows stochastic variability, noise case is dominated by incoherent fluctuations. \u2014 astro-ph.IM <\/p>\n
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will map sources in multiband colour\u2013variability space.<\/p>\n
We present a prototype coherence-based framework for astrobiology and technosignature searches, in which candidates are treated as structured departures from natural astrophysical manifolds rather than isolated photometric outliers.<\/p>\n
We illustrate the framework with three simulated cases: five Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) surface\/activity states, a grid of 649 synthetic exoplanet spectra with vegetation-red-edge-like (VRE) perturbations, and 500 synthetic multiband light curves, each projected into LSST-like observable space and analysed through colour geometry, chromatic variability, and cross-band coherence.<\/p>\n
Key results include a full-colour Mahalanobis distance D\u22485.1 for the weak-coma KBO state (\u223c5\u03c3 in the five-dimensional colour vector), an indicative VRE coherence threshold at fcrit\u22480.13, and an idealised stacking forecast reaching 5\u03c3 under optimistic assumptions.<\/p>\n
We show, using a small Gaia~DR3 stellar sample, that stellar colour and photometric stability may inform the prioritisation of Galactic regions for applying such coherence diagnostics.<\/p>\n
Andjelka B Kovacevic, Nigel J. Mason, Aleksandra Ciprijanovic, Becky Long, Dominika Korczakowska, Maia Moore, Juulia Voulukka<\/p>\n
Comments: submitted to Advancing the Search for Technosignatures, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #404 (forthcoming) Astrobiology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simulated multiband light-curve populations in the Cchroma\u2013Ccross diagnostic plane. Left: noise-dominated, natural, and coherent variability classes (N \u2248…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[67344,157573,166320,213169,210496,61,60,213170,213171,82,123895,213172,29213],"class_list":["post-497728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-technosignature","tag-astro-ph-im","tag-gaia-dr3","tag-https-astrobiology-com-2026-06-astrochemistry","tag-https-astrobiology-com-2026-06-astronomy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kuiper-belt-object","tag-legacy-survey-of-space-and-time-lsst","tag-science","tag-seti","tag-vegetation-red-edge","tag-vera-c-rubin-observatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
Report number: FERMILAB-CONF-26-0344-CSAID
Cite as: arXiv:2606.00574 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:2606.00574v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48550\/arXiv.2606.00574<\/a>
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From: Andjelka Kovacevic
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https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2606.00574<\/a><\/p>\n