“Great Silence” in narrowband radio technosignature searches over the past several decades may be caused by spectral broadening in interplanetary medium.
Turbulent plasma near distant stars could blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems, making them difficult to detect.
https://www.seti.org/news/why-seti-might-have-been-missing-alien-signals/
Exo–IPM Scattering as a Hidden Gatekeeper of Narrowband Technosignatures https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3d33
"Narrowband radio technosignatures can be significantly modulated by the host star’s exoplanetary interplanetary medium (Exo-IPM), where turbulence in stellar winds and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) imprint spectral broadening. ..








