CAREER: Evryscope Science: Realizing the Potential of the First Full-Sky Gigapixel-Scale Telescope

EvryScope是一种新型望远镜，可以在每次曝光时记录智利可见的整个天空，每隔两分钟就会每晚进行一次新的曝光。其6.91亿像素的相机和连续运行将使人们能够发现短时间尺度的事件，例如当行星从其主恒星前面经过时，视亮度降低。劳教授与北卡罗来纳大学的学生一起开发了EvryScope，并将其用作他在教师早期职业发展计划奖中的五年综合教育和研究计划的核心。除了为学生提供研究培训的机会外，PI还将把基于EvryScope的模块发展成大型入门课程和高级观测天文学课程。该团队将在北卡罗来纳州大学的穆尔黑德天文馆创建一个可缩放的实时动态天空视图，将其转化为一个巨大的互动天文馆展示。这一公开展览将供数十万学龄儿童和天文馆参观者使用。PI已经在Cerro Tololo部署了8000平方度的EvryScope，在那里它以2分钟的节奏记录下整个南方天空的16级。PI和他的学生将对一系列可变和临时目标进行EvryScope调查，他们将开发数据处理/分析和数据库工具，以最大限度地提高这项调查的科学产出。他们的主要关注点将是对最近的白矮星周围的宜居岩石行星进行大规模调查。

The Evryscope is a new type of telescope that records the entire sky visible from Chile in each exposure, and it obtains a new exposure every two minutes, night after night. Its 691 megapixel camera and the continuous operation will enable the discovery of short-timescale events, such as the decrease in apparent brightness when a planet passes in front of its host star. Professor Law, along with students at the University of North Carolina, developed the Evryscope and will use it as the centerpiece of his 5-year integrated education and research plan in this Faculty Early Career Development Program award. In addition to providing opportunities for student research training, the PI will develop Evryscope-based modules into large introductory classes and into the upper-level observational astronomy curriculum. The team will create a zoomable, real-time view of the dynamic sky seen by Evryscope into a giant interactive planetarium display at UNC's Moorhead planetarium. This public exhibit will be used by hundreds of thousands of school-age children and planetarium visitors.The PI has deployed the 8000 square-degree Evryscope at Cerro Tololo, where it is recording the entire southern sky down to 16th magnitude with 2-minute cadence. The PI and his students will conduct the Evryscope survey of a range of variable and transient targets, and they will develop the data processing/analysis and database tools to maximize the scientific output of this survey. Their principal focus will be a large survey for habitable rocky planets around the nearest white dwarfs.