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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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Shporer , T. Brown , T. Lister , R. Street , Y. Tsapras , F. Bianco , B. Fulton , A. Howell

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) is a young organization dedicated to time-domain observations at optical and (potentially) near-IR wavelengths. To this end, LCOGT is constructing a world-wide network of telescopes,…

We describe the operational capabilities of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. We summarize our hardware and software for maintaining and monitoring network health. We focus on methodologies to utilize the automated…

The Las Cumbres Observatory operates a fleet of robotically controlled telescopes currently two 2m, nine 1m, and ten 0.4m telescopes, distributed amongst six sites covering both hemispheres. Telescopes of an aperture class are equipped with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-01 Daniel-Rolf Harbeck , Curtis McCully , Andrew Pickles , Nikolaus Volgenau , Patrick Conway , Brook Taylor

We present results from ongoing science projects conducted by members of the Faulkes Telescope (FT) team and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT). Many of these projects incorporate observations carried out and analysed by FT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Fraser Lewis , Rachel Street , Paul Roche , Vanessa Stroud , David M. Russell

The TBT project is being developed under ESA's General Studies and Technology Programme (GSTP), and shall implement a test-bed for the validation of an autonomous optical observing system in a realistic scenario within the Space Situational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-27 Francisco Ocaña , Aitor Ibarra , Elena Racero , Ángel Montero , Jirí Doubek , Vicente Ruiz

Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) has deployed a network of ten identical 1-m telescopes to four locations. The global coverage and flexibility of the LCO network makes it ideal for discovery, follow-up, and characterization of all Solar System…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 T. A. Lister , E. Gomez , J. Chatelain , S. Greenstreet , J. MacFarlane , A. Tedeschi , I. Kosic

The Faulkes Telescope Project is the educational arm of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT). It currently has two 2-metre robotic telescopes, located at Haleakala on Maui (FT North) and Siding Spring in Australia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fraser Lewis , David M. Russell , Rob P. Fender , Paul Roche

The Faulkes Telescope Project is an educational and research arm of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN). It has two 2-metre robotic telescopes, located at Haleakala on Maui (FT North) and Siding Spring in Australia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-17 Fraser Lewis , David M. Russell , Rob P. Fender , Paul Roche , J. Simon Clark

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a wide-field telescope project focused on detecting optical counterparts to gravitational-wave sources. GOTO uses arrays of 40 cm unit telescopes (UTs) on a shared robotic mount,…

We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics 32 2k$\times$4k fully depleted CCDs, providing a $\sim$20…

(Abridged) The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is currently by far the most ambitious proposed ground-based optical survey. The main science themes that drive the LSST system design are Dark Energy and Matter, the Solar System…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Z. Ivezic

Gravitationally lensed supernovae (glSNe) are of interest for time delay cosmology and SN physics. However, glSNe detections are rare, owing to the intrinsic rarity of SN explosions, the necessity of alignment with a foreground lens, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Peter Craig , Kyle O'Connor , Sukanya Chakrabarti , Steven A. Rodney , Justin R. Pierel , Curtis McCully , Ismael Perez-Fournon

We present here a new robotic telescope called TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope). Equipped with a high-quality CCD camera mounted on a 0.6 meter light weight optical tube, TRAPPIST has been installed in April…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Gillon , E. Jehin , P. Magain , V. Chantry , D. Hutsemekers , J. Manfroid , D. Queloz , S. Udry

We introduce the Lee Sang Gak Telescope (LSGT), a remotely operated, robotic 0.43-meter telescope. The telescope was installed at the Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, in 2014 October, to secure regular and exclusive access to the dark…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-13 Myungshin Im , Changsu Choi , Kihyun Kim

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a wide-field telescope project focused on detecting optical counterparts to gravitational-wave sources. The GOTO Telescope Control System (G-TeCS) is a custom robotic control…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-15 Martin J. Dyer , Vik S. Dhillon , Stuart Littlefair , Danny Steeghs , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Paul Chote , Joseph Lyman , Duncan K. Galloway , Kendall Ackley , Yik Lun Mong

Built in 2004, the Skynet robotic telescope network originally consisted of six 0.4 m telescopes located at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Chilean Andes. The network was designed to carry out simultaneous…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Dylan A. Dutton , Daniel E. Reichart , Joshua B. Haislip , Vladimir V. Kouprianov , Omar H. Shaban , Alan Vasquez Soto

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an 8-m optical ground-based telescope being constructed on Cerro Pachon in Chile. LSST will survey half the sky every few nights in six optical bands. The data will be transferred to NCSA and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Tim Jenness

The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) is an international collaboration to build and operate a 4 m diameter fully robotic telescope. The telescope will take advantage of the superb atmospheric conditions at the Observatory of the Roque de los…

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a high etendue imaging facility that is being constructed atop Cerro Pachon in Northern Chile. It is scheduled to begin science operations in 2022. With an 8.4m (6.5m effective) aperture, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-12 Hu Zhan , J. Anthony Tyson
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