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We have deployed the Argus Pathfinder telescope, the Argus Array prototype, to PARI in the Appalachian mountains. Pathfinder’s hardware, software and data-analysis pipelines have already been extensively tested in Chapel Hill, and the telescope  will be commissioned at the PARI dark-sky … Read more

Check out Science Magazine’s great article on the Argus Array!. From the article: “Argus Panoptes, the all-seeing, manyeyed giant of Greek mythology, is about to take physical form in the mountains of North Carolina. In October, an array of 38 … Read more

The Argus Array and Evryscope teams are highlighting the new Argus Array design concept, the ongoing Argus prototypes, and new Evryscope results at SPIE 2022: 1. The inside-out upside-down telescope: the Argus Array’s new pseudofocal design 2. The sky at … Read more

We’re highlighting the ongoing Argus prototypes and Evryscope results at AAS 2022: Hank Corbett: The sky at one terabit per second: the Argus Hierarchical Data Processing System Amy Glazier: searching for exoplanet aurorae with Evryscope and SOAR Alan Vasquez Soto; … Read more

We have begun the construction of Argus Pathfinder, the 1/3-scale prototype of the Argus Array. The 38-telescope prototype is being mounted into two shipping containers, which will undergo testing at our off-campus test facility in Chapel Hill before being deployed … Read more

Read our new fact sheet about the 55 Gpix Argus Array, including the new system design that eliminates the need to move the telescope dome, removes 1,000 telescope windows, and thus greatly reduces the enclosure costs.  

The first Argus Array prototype, the mArgus technology testbed, is on-sky and undergoing testing. See a new photojournal of some of the development work here: A New Way to Explore the Night Sky

The Argus Array, being developed by the Law group at UNC Chapel Hill, is a large (5m-aperture-equivalent) telescope consisting of 900 moderate-aperture, off-the-shelf telescopes multiplexed into a common hemispherical dome. The prototype, the Argus Pathfinder, will demonstrate the Argus concept … Read more

Evryscope graduate student Amy Glazier has been selected for the inaugural cohort of NASA’s Exoplanet Explorers program! One of ten early-career scientists selected nationally for the program, Amy will join the NASA ExoExplorers team, present her research to the exoplanet … Read more

Dr. Jeff Ratzloff, recently graduated from UNC, designed and built the Evryscopes’ hardware, and discovered new types of compact objects with the systems. Read his Dean’s-Distinguished-Dissertation-Award-winning thesis here!

R. Gonzalez Session 124. (iPoster-Plus Session) — Stellar Rotation, Variability, and Flares 124.08. Automating Superflare Spectroscopy with Evryscope and SOAR N. Law 235.02. The Argus Array: the Deep Sky Every Minute A. F. Vasquez Soto Session 405 – (Oral Session) — The … Read more

We are happy to announce the NSF/MSIP development funding of the Argus Array prototype, the prototype for the next-generation Evryscope. Like the Evryscopes, Argus will cover the entire sky in each exposure, but with hundreds of quarter-meter telescopes tiled across … Read more

Our NSF-funded Evryscope and exoplanets exhibit has opened at Morehead Planetarium. The exhibit includes a half-dome planetarium displaying real full-sky Evryscope images with gesture interactivity, an interactive activity where students learn to classify light curves and look for exoplanets, and … Read more

Reflections from objects in Earth orbit can produce subsecond, star-like optical flashes similar to astrophysical transients. Reflections have historically caused false alarms for transient surveys, but the population has not been systematically studied. In a new ApJ Letter, we report … Read more

Ultraviolet light from giant stellar flares can destroy a planet’s habitability. New research from the Evryscope will help astrobiologists understand how much radiation planets experience during superflares and whether life could exist on worlds beyond our solar system. Super flares are bursts of … Read more

The Evryscope Team and collaborators have published new papers based on Evryscope data: EVR-CB-004: An Inflated Hot Subdwarf O Star + Unseen WD Companion in a Compact Binary Discovered with the Evryscope Evryscope and K2 Constraints on TRAPPIST-1 Superflare Occurrence … Read more

AAS-Nova has a great article on Ward Howard’s EvryFlare survey. His survey combines long-term high-cadence Evryscope observations with short-term, high-precision TESS data to measure extreme flare rates and rotation rates for cool stars, including some of the highest-priority TESS planet-search … Read more

We are excited to announce that Jeff Ratzloff, the Evryscope mechanical designer and leader of our compact-objects and fast-transiting-exoplanets programs, has been selected to receive the 2020 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering. … Read more

The Evryscope team are presenting new surveys and results @ AAS 2020: Hank Corbett talking about his fast transient survey, including EFTE, his minute-cadence all-sky transient detection and followup system Surveys and Large Programs I, Jan 5, 2:00pm-2:10pm Measurement of … Read more

Two new papers from the Evryscope team detail the results of the Evryscope hot subdwarf binary and planet transit surveys: Hot Subdwarf All Southern Sky Fast Transit Survey with the Evryscope (AJ 2020, in press) Ratzloff, Jeffrey K.; Barlow, Brad N.; … Read more