Evryscope
Description
The Evryscope (“wide-seer”) is an array of telescopes pointed at every part of the accessible sky simultaneously and continuously, together forming a gigapixel-scale telescope monitoring an overlapping 8,000 square degree field every two minutes. Operating at CTIO since May 2015, Evryscope is being developed at UNC-Chapel Hill by Nick Law, assistant professor of physics, and his team. RENCI has worked closely with the team to use iRODS as the data management and transfer platform to examine image data taken from the telescope. The researchers hope to receive funding from the NSF to support the full development of the design. The proposal envisions collecting approximately one petabyte of image data over three years. It also envisions creating a data store that astrophysicists can query, which could be as large as 90 terabytes. Analytics on the image data will be used to detect transiting exoplanets and transient events.
RENCI's Role
RENCI provides guidance on best practices for collecting, analyzing, and storing large amounts of data. Terrell Russell is the RENCI lead.