Astroengineering
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Astroengineering is the construction of megastructures in space by technologically advanced beings. It is a form of megascale engineering. Typically proposed feats of astroengineering are on the scale to remake an entire stellar system.
Typical megastructures that would be produced by this activity are hypothesized to be Dyson spheres, ringworlds, Alderson disks, Matrioshka brains, stellar engines such as Shkadov thrusters, and other artifacts produced by Type II and Type III civilizations on the Kardashev scale.
In a 2005 paper, Luc Arnold proposed a means of detecting smaller, though still megascale, artifacts from their distinctive light curve signature.[1]
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- ^ Arnold, L., Transit Lightcurve Signatures of Artificial Objects, Astrophysical Journal, 627 (July 1), p. 534-539. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
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