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Red Dots – VLOG 2

31st July 2017 Clark Baker 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 […]

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Red Dots – the story so far

31st July 2017 Guillem Anglada-Escude 2

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 […]

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Photometry log #2: 6 weeks of observations

28th July 2017 Cristina Rodriguez 5

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 […]

Depiction of high energy emission from an active red dwarf. Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger
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The rapidly rotating Ross 154 – by Mikko Tuomi

27th July 2017 Mikko Tuomi 8

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

21st July 2017 Cristina Rodriguez 1

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 […]

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Dreaming Peter van de Kamp’s dream

18th July 2017 zaira Modrono 0

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

17th July 2017 Guillem Anglada-Escude 1

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

16th July 2017 Guillem Anglada-Escude 8

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

14th July 2017 Guillem Anglada-Escude 3

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!

13th July 2017 Clark Baker 1

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 […]

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