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Jeffrey K. Ratzloff
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 48
Citations - 904
Jeffrey K. Ratzloff is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stars & Light curve. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 47 publications receiving 642 citations.
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Evryscope science: exploring the potential of all-sky gigapixel-scale telescopes
Nicholas M. Law,Octavi Fors,Jeffrey K. Ratzloff,Philip Wulfken,Dustin Kavanaugh,David J. Sitar,Zachary Pruett,Mariah N. Birchard,Brad N. Barlow,Kipp Cannon,S. Bradley Cenko,B. H. Dunlap,Adam L. Kraus,Thomas J. Maccarone +13 more
TL;DR: The Evryscope as discussed by the authors is an under-construction 780 MPix telescope which is capable of detecting transiting exoplanets around every solar-type star brighter than mV = 12, providing at least few-millimagnitude photometric precision in longterm light curves.
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The First Naked-eye Superflare Detected from Proxima Centauri
Ward S. Howard,Matt A. Tilley,Hank Corbett,Allison Youngblood,R. O. Parke Loyd,Jeffrey K. Ratzloff,Nicholas M. Law,Octavi Fors,Octavi Fors,Daniel del Ser,Daniel del Ser,Evgenya L. Shkolnik,Carl Ziegler,Erin Goeke,Aaron D. Pietraallo,J. B. Haislip +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, the photochemical effects of NOx atmospheric species generated by particle events from Proxima Centauri's extreme stellar activity were modeled and shown that the repeated flaring may be sufficient to reduce the ozone of an Earth-like atmosphere by 90% within five years.
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Evryscope science: exploring the potential of all-sky gigapixel-scale telescopes
Nicholas M. Law,Octavi Fors,Jeffrey K. Ratzloff,Philip Wulfken,Dustin Kavanaugh,David J. Sitar,Zachary Pruett,Mariah Birchart,Brad N. Barlow,Kipp Cannon,S. Bradley Cenko,B. H. Dunlap,Adam L. Kraus,Thomas J. Maccarone +13 more
TL;DR: The Evryscope as mentioned in this paper is an under-construction 780 MPix telescope which covers 8,660 square degrees in each two-minute exposure; each night, 18,400 square degrees will be continuously observed for an average of approximately 6 hours.
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EvryFlare. I. Long-term Evryscope Monitoring of Flares from the Cool Stars across Half the Southern Sky
Ward S. Howard,Hank Corbett,Nicholas M. Law,Jeffrey K. Ratzloff,Amy Glazier,Octavi Fors,Octavi Fors,Daniel del Ser,Daniel del Ser,J. B. Haislip +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors search for superflares from 4,068 cool stars in 2+ years of Evryscope photometry, focusing on those with high-cadence data from both TESS and TESS, and find 8 flares with amplitudes of 3+ g' magnitudes, with the largest reaching 5.6 magnitudes and releasing 10.2 erg.
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Bright Opportunities for Atmospheric Characterization of Small Planets: Masses and Radii of K2-3 b, c, and d and GJ3470 b from Radial Velocity Measurements and Spitzer Transits
Molly R. Kosiarek,Ian J. M. Crossfield,Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman,John H. Livingston,Björn Benneke,Gregory W. Henry,Ward S. Howard,David Berardo,Sarah Blunt,Benjamin J. Fulton,L. A. Hirsch,Andrew W. Howard,H. Isaacson,Erik A. Petigura,Evan Sinukoff,Lauren M. Weiss,Xavier Bonfils,Courtney D. Dressing,Heather Knutson,J. E. Schlieder,Michael Werner,Varoujan Gorjian,Jessica Krick,Farisa Y. Morales,Nicola Astudillo-Defru,J. M. Almenara,Xavier Delfosse,Thierry Forveille,Christophe Lovis,Michel Mayor,Felipe Murgas,Francesco Pepe,Nuno C. Santos,Stéphane Udry,Hank Corbett,Octavi Fors,Nicholas M. Law,Jeffrey K. Ratzloff,Daniel del Ser +38 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported improved masses, radii, and densities for four planets in two bright M-dwarf systems, K2-3 and GJ3470, derived from a combination of new radial velocity and transit observations.