LCO's telescopes around the world, always ready in the dark, drive a unique and powerful engine supporting discoveries in Time Domain Astronomy.
The unique aspect of LCO science is having a global network of telescopes at our disposal. The areas of astronomy most interesting to us are those which take full advantage of this sort of network; targets which appear suddenly and without warning like supernovae and solar system objects and those which need to be observed for long periods in darkness like exoplanets.
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Published Jul 2025
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025 541 1
ArXiv: 2503.14071
Snodgrass, Colin
et al.
Snodgrass, Colin, Holt, Carrie E., Kelley, Michael S. P., Opitom, Cyrielle, Guilbert-Lepoutre, Aurélie, Knight, Matthew M., Kokotanekova, Rosita, Jehin, Emmanuel, Mazzotta Epifani, Elena, Migliorini, Alessandra, Tubiana, Cecilia, Micheli, Marco, Farnocchia, Davide,
Published Jul 2025
The Astronomical Journal, 2025 170 1
ArXiv: 2506.21666
Lauer, Tod R.
et al.
Lauer, Tod R., Munro, David H., Spencer, John R., Buie, Marc W., Gomez, Edward L., Hennessy, Gregory S., Henry, Todd J., Kaplan, George H., Kielkopf, John F., May, Brian H., Parker, Joel W., Porter, Simon B., Vrijmoet, Eliot Halley, Weaver, Harold A., Brandt, Pontus, Singer, Kelsi N., Stern, S. Alan, Verbiscer, Anne. J., Acosta, Pedro, Arias, Nicolás Ariel, Babino, Sergio, Ballan, Gustavo Enrique, Buso, Víctor Ángel, Conard, Steven J., Das Airas, Daniel, Di Scala, Giorgio, Fornari, César, Fraire, Jossiel, Gerard, Brian Nicolás, González, Federico, Goytea, Gerardo, Guzmán, Emilio Mora, Hanna, William, Keel, William C., Kleiman, Aldo, López, Anselmo, Machuca, Jorge Gerardo, Málaga, Leonardo, Martínez, Claudio, Martinez, Denis, Meliá, Raúl, Monópoli, Marcelo, Murison, Marc A., Fernandez Pohle, Leandro Emiliano, Ribas, Mariano, Ramón Sánchez, José Luis, Scauso, Sergio, Terrell, Dirk, Traub, Thomas, Valenti, Pedro Oscar, Valenzuela, Ángel, von Hippel, Ted, Chen, Wen Ping, Zambelis, Dennis,
Published Jul 2025
The Astrophysical Journal, 2025 987 1
ArXiv: 2505.16867
Makrygianni, Lydia
et al.
Makrygianni, Lydia, Arcavi, Iair, Newsome, Megan, Bandopadhyay, Ananya, Coughlin, Eric R., Linial, Itai, Mockler, Brenna, Quataert, Eliot, Nixon, Chris, Godson, Benjamin, Pursiainen, Miika, Leloudas, Giorgos, French, K. Decker, Zitrin, Adi, Faris, Sara, Lam, Marco C., Horesh, Assaf, Sfaradi, Itai, Fausnaugh, Michael, Nakar, Ehud, Ackley, Kendall, Andrews, Moira, Charalampopoulos, Panos, Davies, Benjamin D. R., Dgany, Yael, Dyer, Martin J., Farah, Joseph, Fender, Rob, Green, David A., Howell, D. Andrew, Killestein, Thomas, Koivisto, Niilo, Lyman, Joseph, McCully, Curtis, Mitchell, Morgan A., Padilla Gonzalez, Estefania, Rhodes, Lauren, Sahu, Anwesha, Terreran, Giacomo, Warwick, Ben,
Published Jul 2025
The Astrophysical Journal, 2025 987 2
ArXiv: 2501.01485
Kumar, Harsh
et al.
Kumar, Harsh, Berger, Edo, Blanchard, Peter K., Gomez, Sebastian, Hiramatsu, Daichi, Andrews, Moira, Bostroem, K. Azalee, Dong, Yize, Farah, Joseph, Padilla Gonzalez, Estefania, Howell, D. Andrew, McCully, Curtis, Mehta, Darshana, Newsome, Megan, Ravi, Aravind P., Terreran, Giacomo,
Published Jul 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2025 699
ArXiv: 2505.10333
Dahale, Rohan
et al.
Dahale, Rohan, Cho, Ilje, Moriyama, Kotaro, Wiik, Kaj, Tiede, Paul, Gómez, José L., Chan, Chi-kwan, Gold, Roman, Bernshteyn, Vadim Y., Foschi, Marianna, Jeter, Britton, Pu, Hung-Yi, Georgiev, Boris, Joshi, Abhishek V., Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro, Natarajan, Iniyan, Broderick, Avery E., Salas, León D. S., Chatterjee, Koushik, Akiyama, Kazunori, Albentosa-Ruíz, Ezequiel, Alberdi, Antxon, Alef, Walter, Algaba, Juan Carlos, Anantua, Richard, Asada, Keiichi, Azulay, Rebecca, Bach, Uwe, Baczko, Anne-Kathrin, Ball, David, Baloković, Mislav, Bandyopadhyay, Bidisha, Barrett, John, Bauböck, Michi, Benson, Bradford A., Bintley, Dan, Blackburn, Lindy, Blundell, Raymond, Bouman, Katherine L., Bower, Geoffrey C., Bremer, Michael, Brissenden, Roger, Britzen, Silke, Broguiere, Dominique, Bronzwaer, Thomas, Bustamante, Sandra, Ferreira Carlos, Douglas, Carlstrom, John E., Chael, Andrew, Chang, Dominic O., Chatterjee, Shami, Chen, Ming-Tang, Chen, Yongjun, Cheng, Xiaopeng, Christian, Pierre, Conroy, Nicholas S., Conway, John E., Crawford, Thomas M., Crew, Geoffrey B., Cui, Yuzhu, Curd, Brandon, Davelaar, Jordy, De Laurentis, Mariafelicia, Deane, Roger, Dempsey, Jessica, Desvignes, Gregory, Dexter, Jason, Dhruv, Vedant, Dihingia, Indu K., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Dzib, Sergio A., Eatough, Ralph P., Emami, Razieh, Falcke, Heino, Farah, Joseph, Fish, Vincent L., Fomalont, Edward, Ford, H. Alyson, Fraga-Encinas, Raquel, Freeman, William T., Friberg, Per, Fromm, Christian M., Fuentes, Antonio, Galison, Peter, Gammie, Charles F., García, Roberto, Gentaz, Olivier, Geertsema, Gertie, Goddi, Ciriaco, Gómez-Ruiz, Arturo I., Gu, Minfeng, Gurwell, Mark, Hada, Kazuhiro, Haggard, Daryl, Hesper, Ronald, Heumann, Dirk, Ho, Luis C., Ho, Paul, Honma, Mareki, Huang, Chih-Wei L., Huang, Lei, Hughes, David H., Ikeda, Shiro, Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette, Inoue, Makoto, Issaoun, Sara, James, David J., Jannuzi, Buell T., Janssen, Michael, Jiang, Wu, Jiménez-Rosales, Alejandra, Johnson, Michael D., Jorstad, Svetlana, Jones, Adam C., Jung, Taehyun, Karuppusamy, Ramesh, Kawashima, Tomohisa, Keating, Garrett K., Kettenis, Mark, Kim, Dong-Jin, Kim, Jae-Young, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Junhan, Kino, Motoki, Koay, Jun Yi, Kocherlakota, Prashant, Kofuji, Yutaro, Koch, Patrick M., Koyama, Shoko, Kramer, Carsten, Kramer, Joana A., Kramer, Michael, Krichbaum, Thomas P., Kuo, Cheng-Yu, La Bella, Noemi, Lee, Sang-Sung, Levis, Aviad, Li, Zhiyuan, Lico, Rocco, Lindahl, Greg, Lindqvist, Michael, Lisakov, Mikhail, Liu, Jun, Liu, Kuo, Liuzzo, Elisabetta, Lo, Wen-Ping, Lobanov, Andrei P., Loinard, Laurent, Lonsdale, Colin J., Lowitz, Amy E., Lu, Ru-Sen, MacDonald, Nicholas R., Mao, Jirong, Marchili, Nicola, Markoff, Sera, Marrone, Daniel P., Marscher, Alan P., Martí-Vidal, Iván, Matsushita, Satoki, Matthews, Lynn D., Medeiros, Lia, Menten, Karl M., Mizuno, Izumi, Mizuno, Yosuke, Montgomery, Joshua, Moran, James M., Moscibrodzka, Monika, Mulaudzi, Wanga, Müller, Cornelia, Müller, Hendrik, Mus, Alejandro, Musoke, Gibwa, Myserlis, Ioannis, Nagai, Hiroshi, Nagar, Neil M., Nair, Dhanya G., Nakamura, Masanori, Narayanan, Gopal, Nathanail, Antonios, Navarro Fuentes, Santiago, Neilsen, Joey, Ni, Chunchong, Nowak, Michael A., Oh, Junghwan, Okino, Hiroki, Olivares Sánchez, Héctor Raúl, Oyama, Tomoaki, Özel, Feryal, Palumbo, Daniel C. M., Paraschos, Georgios Filippos, Park, Jongho, Parsons, Harriet, Patel, Nimesh, Pen, Ue-Li, Pesce, Dominic W., Piétu, Vincent, PopStefanija, Aleksandar, Porth, Oliver, Prather, Ben, Principe, Giacomo, Psaltis, Dimitrios, Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Mark G., Rezzolla, Luciano, Ricarte, Angelo, Ripperda, Bart, Röder, Jan, Roelofs, Freek, Romero-Cañizales, Cristina, Ros, Eduardo, Roshanineshat, Arash, Rottmann, Helge, Roy, Alan L., Ruiz, Ignacio, Ruszczyk, Chet, Rygl, Kazi L. J., Sánchez, Salvador, Sánchez-Argüelles, David, Sánchez-Portal, Miguel, Sasada, Mahito, Satapathy, Kaushik, Saurabh, Savolainen, Tuomas, Peter Schloerb, F., Schonfeld, Jonathan, Schuster, Karl-Friedrich, Shao, Lijing, Shen, Zhiqiang, Silpa, Sasikumar, Small, Des, Sohn, Bong Won, SooHoo, Jason, Souccar, Kamal, Stanway, Joshua S., Sun, He, Tazaki, Fumie, Tetarenko, Alexandra J., Tilanus, Remo P. J., Titus, Michael, Toma, Kenji, Torne, Pablo, Toscano, Teresa, Traianou, Efthalia, Trent, Tyler, Trippe, Sascha, Turk, Matthew, van Bemmel, Ilse, van Langevelde, Huib Jan, van Rossum, Daniel R., Vos, Jesse, Wagner, Jan, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Wardle, John, Washington, Jasmin E., Weintroub, Jonathan, Wharton, Robert, Wielgus, Maciek, Witzel, Gunther, Wondrak, Michael F., Wong, George N., Wu, Qingwen, Yadlapalli, Nitika, Yamaguchi, Paul, Yfantis, Aristomenis, Yoon, Doosoo, Young, André, Younsi, Ziri, Yu, Wei, Yuan, Feng, Yuan, Ye-Fei, Zeng, Ai-Ling, Anton Zensus, J., Zhang, Shuo, Zhao, Guang-Yao, Zhao, Shan-Shan,