Talk: Friday August 7, 4:20-4:40pm, IAU Division F (Exoplanets)

The Evryscope and extrasolar planets
Octavi Fors; Nicholas M. Law; Philip J. Wulfken; Jeffrey Ratzloff

Posters (week 1):

DBp.1.24. The Evryscope: the first all-sky gigapixel-scale telescope
Nicholas M. Law; Octavi Fors; Jeffrey Ratzloff; Philip Wulfken

FM8p.29. Evrystats for Evryplanets: planets from the first all-sky gigapixel scale telescope
Octavi Fors; Nicholas M. Law; Philip J. Wulfken; Jeffrey Ratzloff

Antarctic system: We will also present options for an Antarctic Evryscope at the SCAR Workshop also on Hawaii.

The Evryscope and other small-telescope time-domain surveys are profiled in Science this week!

The Evryscope has collected more than 100,000 images, each 30MPix in size, for a total of 5.5TB of data. Data reduction is ongoing!

The Evryscope is deployed at CTIO and has operated on-sky for several nights. The team is back at Chapel Hill and will shortly commence robotic operations of the system, optimization of the image quality, and continued software pipeline development.

A first-CTIO-light image of the galactic plane is below. Click on the image to see a 1:1 zoom, displayed in a linear stretch, as yet uncalibrated for flat-fielding or bias. This image makes up about 1/500th of a single Evryscope exposure.

The Evryscope is crated up and is shipping to CTIO!

We’ve successfully tested the Evryscope under bright-sky conditions at Chapel Hill; the next step is shipping to CTIO and deployment.

Gudmundur Stefansson has written an article about the Evryscope for Astrobites: http://astrobites.org/2015/01/26/evryscope-greek-for-wide-seeing/

Sky and Telescope has featured the Evryscope in an article about the future of exoplanet surveys.

This arXiv paper (submitted to PASP) gives a detailed look at our science plans for the system.

The Evryscope hardware is arriving at UNC Chapel Hill, and we are starting integration of the subsystems into the array. The next step will be full-up testing of the whole telescope.

http://starplan.dk/seminars/evryscope-first-full-sky-gigapixel-scale-telescope

Popular Mechanics has featured the Evryscope in their “Year of Good Things 2015” article, in the December/January 2015 edition, highlighting our plans for a 2015 deployment of the prototype system.

http://astronomy.yale.edu/event/ycaa-seminar-octavi-fors

The Arctic prototype cameras and the potential Arctic deployment of the Evryscope are featured in the Nov/Dec 2014 issue of SkyNews (page 18) : http://www.skynews.ca/

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/events/colloquia.html

The Evryscope has been fully-funded for construction by the NSF Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program.

The Evryscope project has been featured in MIT Technology Review (“How to Build an Evryscope”).

The SPIE-2014 (Montreal Conference) paper on the Evryscope details the science plans and project status: arXiv upload