Video logs
Red Dots – VLOG 2
Tune in to the second VLOG in our series following the events of the Red Dots campaign – and find out what has happened over the course of the past 2 weeks. Come back in […]
Month: July 2017
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Red Dots – the story so far
It has been an exciting start to the Red Dots campaign that kicked off on Monday 19th June. This post is a summarizes the news so far from across the campaign – stay tuned for more […]
Science Logs
Photometry log #2: 6 weeks of observations
It has been six weeks since we started the photometric follow-up campaign and here there are some updates and exciting plots from observatories involved: SPACE Observatory Check a strong flare caught in action! It was […]
Articles
The rapidly rotating Ross 154 – by Mikko Tuomi
Perhaps the least known star in the Red Dots campaign, Ross 154, is a rapidly rotating M dwarf star that shows elevated activity levels and and flares on its surface. This makes the Red Dots […]
Science Logs
Differential Photometry In Practice
Photometry shows the changes in luminosity taking place in a star, which in M stars are mainly due to stellar activity. They can be shown as rotational modulation in the light curves as a consequence […]
Articles
Dreaming Peter van de Kamp’s dream
by Paul Gilster, writer and author of “Centauri Dreams”. Edited by Zaira M. Berdiñas The Red Dots campaign to study Proxima Centauri, Barnard’s Star and Ross 154 gives us a cannily chosen set of targets. All […]
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Life at the observatory – winds and clouds at La Silla
It is no secret that this year’s weather hasn’t been very good at La Silla. From 25 scheduled observations, we managed to obtain only ~10 of them. Still, life continues at the observatories. When not […]
Science Logs
Arecibo observatory joins Red Dots today for simultaneous observations of Barnard’s star
The National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory and the Planetary Habitability Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo joins forces with Red Dots today to learn a bit more about the nearest red-dwarfs and its […]
Science Logs
Proxima Centauri HARPS data release #1
The first spectra obtained by HARPS are now publicly available at https://reddots.space/data/ We planned earlier releases, but weather conditions were not great. So far, we have collected 10 out of 22 possible epochs, which is not […]
Video logs
Red Dots – VLOG 1 now live!
Welcome to the first video log following the progress of the Red Dots campaign. Tune in to find out what has happened in these first 3 weeks, and how you can get involved: We’ll be […]