No sunshine, no moonlight, no stardust, no sign of romance
We suggest that advanced civilizations could cloak their presence, or deliberately broadcast it, through controlled laser emission.
Such emission could distort the apparent shape of their transit light curves with relatively little energy, due to the collimated beam and relatively infrequent nature of transits.
We estimate that humanity could cloak the Earth from Kepler-like broad-band surveys using an optical monochromatic laser array emitting a peak power of ∼30 MW for ∼10 hours per year.
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