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Rotation and flares in Evryscope-detected active cool dwarfs

August 9, 2019

EvryFlare II: Rotation Periods and Starspot Coverage of Cool Active Stars Throughout the Spin-down Process (AJ, submitted) Ward S. Howard, Hank Corbett, Nicholas M. Law, Jeffrey K. Ratzloff, Amy Glazier, Octavi Fors, Daniel del Ser, Joshua Haislip  

Three new Evryscope papers!

May 11, 2019

EvryFlare I: Long-term Evryscope Monitoring of Flares from the Cool Stars Across Half the Southern Sky (submitted to AJ) Howard, Ward S.; Corbett, Hank; Law, Nicholas M.; Ratzloff, Jeffrey K.; Glazier, Amy L.; Fors, Octavi; del Ser, Daniel; Haislip, Joshua … Read more

Evryscope @ AAS Winter 2019

January 7, 2019

The Evryscope team and collaborators are presenting talks and posters about Evryscope science results and papers at the AAS winter meeting: Overview project-status and science-result iPoster, viewable every day in the poster sessions (official session is Wednesday evening), and online. … Read more

Northern Evryscope deployed!

October 27, 2018

We’ve completed a successful deployment of the Northern Evryscope. The system is currently undergoing commissioning.

New Evryscope paper: long-term K2 target chacterization

October 7, 2018

Evryscope measured the rotation period of K2-3, a planet-host with too long a rotation period to be measured directly in K2 (or eventually TESS) data. We’re happy to provide data for astronomers interested in similar measurements of other targets.

Media coverage of the Proxima Superflare

April 11, 2018

There’ve been great articles on the Proxima superflare detected by the Evryscope, here’s a selection: Space.com Ars Technica Universe Today New Scientist Outer Places Daily Mail El Pais

Evryscope detects a superflare from Proxima Centauri

April 9, 2018

The Evryscope has detected a superflare that briefly made the tiny star Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun, 70x brighter. Proxima b is a terrestrial-mass planet in the habitable-zone of Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri’s high stellar activity however … Read more

Evryscope @ 2018 Winter AAS conference

January 9, 2018

The Evryscope team is presenting a variety of results at the Winter AAS conference in Washington DC: Talks Evryscope project overview Nicholas Law NSF Fellows Workshop, Monday Fast cadence planet-searches with the all-sky, gigapixel-scale Evryscope Jeff Ratzloff 204.05, Detection of … Read more

Evryscope project update

October 12, 2017

Two project update posters from the Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet conference at Pasadena, including the first flare-rate and exoplanet habitability constraints from the Evryscope.

Evryscope-North parts arrive

June 2, 2017

The first Evryscope-North parts have been completed at the UNC machine shop. With a couple of dozen cameras, there are a lot of components!  

Evryscope @ Radio Exploration of Planetary Habitability

May 19, 2017

The Evryscope team and collaborators presented Evryscope flare-search results at the AAS Radio Exploration of Planetary Habitability in Palm Springs. Ward Howard: Evryscope flare-detection poster Marin Anderson: Long-Wavelength-Array / Evryscope CME-detection talk

Evryscope seminar @ IAS

May 6, 2017

Nick Law presented an informal IAS @ Princeton seminar about the Evryscope and Robo-AO, with updates on some of the results so far from our various science programs. The PDF version is here.

Evryscope-North construction begins

January 20, 2017

We have started ordering the components of the Evryscope-North! The telescope will be based at the Mount Laguna Observatory (MLO). The Evryscope-North is funded by a collaboration of San Diego State University (SDSU), UNC-Chapel Hill  and the Research Corporation Scialog program. … Read more

Evryscope at AAVSO conference

November 20, 2016

We are excited to present the Evryscope project at the AAVSO annual meeting, where Octavi Fors will discuss our Scialog-funded plans for amateur observers to follow-up Evryscope discoveries.

Evryscope invited talks

October 5, 2016

We’re presenting the Evryscope at an invited talk @ the SRK60: Compact, Cataclysmic and Catastrophic workshop, and two invited talks at the Scialog Fellows Conference.

Presentations at SPIE Astronomy & Telescopes @ Edinburgh

June 27, 2016

We are presenting new Evryscope results in two presentations at the SPIE conference in Edinburgh: The Evryscope: developing the cameras for the first full-sky gigapixel-scale telescope Jeffrey Ratzloff, Nicholas M. Law, Octavi Fors, Philip Wulfken The Evryscope: design and performance … Read more