Motivated by the increasing need for observational resources for the study of time varying astronomy, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) is a private foundation, whose goal is to build a global network of robotic telescopes for scientific research and education. Once completed, the network will become a unique tool, capable of continuous monitoring from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The network currently includes 2 x 2.0 m telescopes, already making an impact in the field of exoplanet research. In the next few years they will be joined by at least 12 x 1.0 m and 20 x 0.4 m telescopes. The increasing amount of LCOGT observational resources in the coming years will be of great service to the astronomical community in general, and the exoplanet community in particular.
@article{arxiv.1011.6394,
title = {The LCOGT Network},
author = {A. Shporer and T. Brown and T. Lister and R. Street and Y. Tsapras and F. Bianco and B. Fulton and A. Howell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.6394},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 276 "The Astrophysics of Planetary Systems: Formation, Structure, and Dynamical Evolution"