Author Archives: Nicholas Law

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  

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

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

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

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.

Evryscope helped characterize a young, eccentric and quadruple stellar system, detecting starspot rotational modulation (a clear detection at the 4mmag level!)  

Astrobites has a superb writeup of the Proxima superflare, written by Daniel Berke @ Swinburne!  

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

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

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

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.

An update on the Evryscope survey at the Keele Transiting Planets conference.

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!  

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

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.

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

We’ve added some updates on our current results and status to this page.

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.

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.

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