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EvryFlare. I. Long-term Evryscope Monitoring of Flares from the Cool Stars across Half the Southern Sky by Howard, Ward S., Corbett, Hank, Law, Nicholas M., Ratzloff, Jeffrey K., Glazier, Amy, Fors, Octavi, Ser, Daniel del, Haislip, Joshua

“…We search for superflares from 4068 cool stars in 2+ yr of Evryscope photometry, focusing on those with high-cadence data from both Evryscope and the…”
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EvryFlare. III. Temperature Evolution and Habitability Impacts of Dozens of Superflares Observed Simultaneously by Evryscope and TESS by Howard, Ward S., Corbett, Hank, Law, Nicholas M., Ratzloff, Jeffrey K., Galliher, Nathan, L. Glazier, Amy, Gonzalez, Ramses, Soto, Alan Vasquez, Fors, Octavi, del Ser, Daniel, Haislip, Joshua

“…Superflares may provide the dominant source of biologically relevant UV radiation to rocky habitable-zone M-dwarf planets (M-Earths), altering planetary…”
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ROBOTIC LASER ADAPTIVE OPTICS IMAGING OF 715 KEPLER EXOPLANET CANDIDATES USING ROBO-AO by Law, Nicholas M, Morton, Tim, Baranec, Christoph, Riddle, Reed, Ravichandran, Ganesh, Ziegler, Carl, Johnson, John Asher, TENDULKAR, SHRIHARSH P, Bui, Khanh, Burse, Mahesh P, Das, H K, DEKANY, RICHARD G, Kulkarni, Shrinivas, PUNNADI, SUJIT, RAMAPRAKASH, A N

“…The Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey is observing every Kepler planet candidate host star with laser adaptive optics imaging to search for blended…”
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Evryscope Science: Exploring the Potential of All-Sky Gigapixel-Scale Telescopes by Law, Nicholas M., Fors, Octavi, Ratzloff, Jeffrey, Wulfken, Philip, Kavanaugh, Dustin, Sitar, David J., Pruett, Zachary, Birchard, Mariah N., Barlow, Brad N., Cannon, Kipp, Cenko, S. Bradley, Dunlap, Bart, Kraus, Adam, Maccarone, Thomas J.

“…Low-cost mass-produced sensors and optics have recently made it feasible to build telescope arrays which observe the entire accessible sky simultaneously. In…”
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The Evryscope Fast Transient Engine: Real-time Detection for Rapidly Evolving Transients by Corbett, Hank, Carney, Jonathan, Gonzalez, Ramses, Fors, Octavi, Galliher, Nathan, Glazier, Amy, Howard, Ward S., Law, Nicholas M., Quimby, Robert, Ratzloff, Jeffrey K., Soto, Alan Vasquez

“…Abstract Astrophysical transients with rapid developments on subhour timescales are intrinsically rare. Due to their short durations, events like stellar…”
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IPAC Image Processing and Data Archiving for the Palomar Transient Factory by Laher, Russ R., Surace, Jason, Grillmair, Carl J., Ofek, Eran O., Levitan, David, Sesar, Branimir, van Eyken, Julian C., Law, Nicholas M., Helou, George, Hamam, Nouhad, Masci, Frank J., Mattingly, Sean, Jackson, Ed, Hacopeans, Eugean, Mi, Wei, Groom, Steve, Teplitz, Harry, Desai, Vandana, Hale, David, Smith, Roger, Walters, Richard, Quimby, Robert, Kasliwal, Mansi, Horesh, Assaf, Bellm, Eric, Barlow, Tom, Waszczak, Adam, Prince, Thomas A., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.

“…The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a multiepochal robotic survey of the northern sky that acquires data for the scientific study of transient and variable…”
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Astrometric Microlensing by Local Dark Matter Subhalos by Erickcek, Adrienne L, Law, Nicholas M

“…High-resolution N-body simulations of dark matter halos indicate that the Milky Way contains numerous subhalos. When a dark matter subhalo passes in front of a…”
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THE NEAR-ULTRAVIOLET LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OF YOUNG, EARLY M-TYPE DWARF STARS by Ansdell, Megan, Gaidos, Eric, Mann, Andrew W, Lepine, Sebastien, James, David, Buccino, Andrea, Baranec, Christoph, Law, Nicholas M, Riddle, Reed, Mauas, Pablo, Petrucci, Romina

“…Planets orbiting within the close-in habitable zones of M dwarf stars will be exposed to elevated high-energy radiation driven by strong magnetohydrodynamic…”
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TOI-132 b: A short-period planet in the Neptune desert transiting a V = 11.3 G-type star by Díaz, Matías R, Jenkins, James S, Gandolfi, Davide, Lopez, Eric D, Soto, Maritza G, Cortés-Zuleta, Pía, Berdiñas, Zaira M, Stassun, Keivan G, Collins, Karen A, Vines, José I, Ziegler, Carl, Fridlund, Malcom, Jensen, Eric L N, Murgas, Felipe, Santerne, Alexandre, Wilson, Paul A, Esposito, Massimiliano, Hatzes, Artie P, Johnson, Marshall C, Lam, Kristine W F, Livingston, John H, Van Eylen, Vincent, Narita, Norio, Briceño, Cesar, Collins, Kevin I, Csizmadia, Szilárd, Fausnaugh, Michael, Gan, Tianjun, García, Rafael A, Georgieva, Iska, Glidden, Ana, González-Cuesta, Lucía, Jenkins, Jon M, Latham, David W, Law, Nicholas M, Mann, Andrew W, Mathur, Savita, Mireles, Ismael, Morris, Robert, Pallé, Enric, Persson, Carina M, Ricker, George, Rinehart, Stephen, Rose, Mark E, Seager, Sara, Smith, Jeffrey C, Tan, Thiam-Guan, Tokovinin, Andrei, Vanderburg, Andrew, Vanderspek, Roland, Winn, Joshua N, Yahalomi, Daniel A

“…ABSTRACT The Neptune desert is a feature seen in the radius-period plane, whereby a notable dearth of short period, Neptune-like planets is found. Here, we…”
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A Low-mass, Pre-main-sequence Eclipsing Binary in the 40 Myr Columba Association—Fundamental Stellar Parameters and Modeling the Effect of Star Spots by Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Kraus, Adam L., Mann, Andrew W., Newton, Elisabeth R., Gully-Santiago, Michael A., Vanderburg, Andrew, Waalkes, William C., Berta-Thompson, Zachory K., Collins, Kevin I., Collins, Karen A., Nielsen, Louise D., Bouchy, François, Ziegler, Carl, Briceño, César, Law, Nicholas M.

“…Abstract Young eclipsing binaries (EBs) are powerful probes of early stellar evolution. Current models are unable to simultaneously reproduce the measured and…”
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MULTIPLICITY OF THE GALACTIC SENIOR CITIZENS: A HIGH-RESOLUTION SEARCH FOR COOL SUBDWARF COMPANIONS by Ziegler, Carl, Law, Nicholas M., Baranec, Christoph, Riddle, Reed L., Fuchs, Joshua T.

“…ABSTRACT Cool subdwarfs are the oldest members of the low-mass stellar population. Mostly present in the galactic halo, subdwarfs are characterized by their…”
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EvryFlare. iv. Detection of Periodicity in Flare Occurrence from Cool Stars with TESS by Howard, Ward S., Law, Nicholas M.

“…Abstract Phased flaring, or the periodic occurrence of stellar flares, may probe electromagnetic star−planet interaction (SPI), binary interaction, or magnetic…”
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When Do Stalled Stars Resume Spinning Down? Advancing Gyrochronology with Ruprecht 147 by Curtis, Jason Lee, Agüeros, Marcel A., Matt, Sean P., Covey, Kevin R., Douglas, Stephanie T., Angus, Ruth, Saar, Steven H., Cody, Ann Marie, Vanderburg, Andrew, Law, Nicholas M., Kraus, Adam L., Latham, David W., Baranec, Christoph, Riddle, Reed, Ziegler, Carl, Lund, Mikkel N., Torres, Guillermo, Meibom, Søren, Aguirre, Victor Silva, Wright, Jason T.

“…Recent measurements of rotation periods ( ) in the benchmark open clusters Praesepe (670 Myr), NGC 6811 (1 Gyr), and NGC 752 (1.4 Gyr) demonstrate that, after…”
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Building the Evryscope: Hardware Design and Performance by Ratzloff, Jeffrey K., Law, Nicholas M., Fors, Octavi, Corbett, Henry T., Howard, Ward S., Ser, Daniel del, Haislip, Joshua

“…The Evryscope is a telescope array designed to open a new parameter space in optical astronomy, detecting short-timescale events across extremely large sky…”
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EvryFlare. II. Rotation Periods of the Cool Flare Stars in TESS across Half the Southern Sky by Howard, Ward S., Corbett, Hank, Law, Nicholas M., Ratzloff, Jeffrey K., Galliher, Nathan, Glazier, Amy, Fors, Octavi, del Ser, Daniel, Haislip, Joshua

“…We measure rotation periods and sinusoidal amplitudes in Evryscope light curves for 122 two-minute K5-M4 TESS targets selected for strong flaring. The…”
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Low-cost Access to the Deep, High-cadence Sky: the Argus Optical Array by Law, Nicholas M., Corbett, Hank, Galliher, Nathan W., Gonzalez, Ramses, Vasquez, Alan, Walters, Glenn, Machia, Lawrence, Ratzloff, Jeff, Ackley, Kendall, Bizon, Chris, Clemens, Christopher, Cox, Steven, Eikenberry, Steven, Howard, Ward S., Glazier, Amy, Mann, Andrew W., Quimby, Robert, Reichart, Daniel, Trilling, David

“…Abstract New mass-produced, wide-field, small-aperture telescopes have the potential to revolutionize ground-based astronomy by greatly reducing the cost of…”
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Three K2 Campaigns Yield Rotation Periods for 1013 Stars in Praesepe by Rampalli, Rayna, Agüeros, Marcel A., Curtis, Jason L., Douglas, Stephanie T., Núñez, Alejandro, Cargile, Phillip A., Covey, Kevin R., Gosnell, Natalie M., Kraus, Adam L., Law, Nicholas M., Mann, Andrew W.

“…Abstract We use three campaigns of K2 observations to complete the census of rotation in low-mass members of the benchmark, ≈670 Myr old open cluster Praesepe…”
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The Elusive Majority of Young Moving Groups. I. Young Binaries and Lithium-rich Stars in the Solar Neighborhood by Bowler, Brendan P., Hinkley, Sasha, Ziegler, Carl, Baranec, Christoph, Gizis, John E., Law, Nicholas M., Liu, Michael C., Shah, Viyang S., Shkolnik, Evgenya L., Riaz, Basmah, Riddle, Reed

“…Young stars in the solar neighborhood serve as nearby probes of stellar evolution and represent promising targets to directly image self-luminous giant…”
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Evryscope and K2 Constraints on TRAPPIST-1 Superflare Occurrence and Planetary Habitability by Glazier, Amy L., Howard, Ward S., Corbett, Hank, Law, Nicholas M., Ratzloff, Jeffrey K., Fors, Octavi, del Ser, Daniel

“…The nearby ultracool dwarf TRAPPIST-1 possesses several Earth-sized terrestrial planets, three of which have equilibrium temperatures that may support liquid…”
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WHY ARE RAPIDLY ROTATING M DWARFS IN THE PLEIADES SO (INFRA)RED? NEW PERIOD MEASUREMENTS CONFIRM ROTATION-DEPENDENT COLOR OFFSETS FROM THE CLUSTER SEQUENCE by Covey, Kevin R., Agüeros, Marcel A., Law, Nicholas M., Liu, Jiyu, Ahmadi, Aida, Laher, Russ, Levitan, David, Sesar, Branimir, Surace, Jason

“…ABSTRACT Stellar rotation periods (Prot) measured in open clusters have proved to be extremely useful for studying stars' angular momentum content and…”
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