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 Jun 2025
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025 540 1
ArXiv: 2501.07225
Palit, Biswaraj
et al.
Palit, Biswaraj, Śniegowska, Marzena, Markowitz, Alex, Różańska, Agata, Farah, Joseph, Howell, D. Andrew,
Published May 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2025 697
ArXiv: 2405.13496
Cuillandre, J. -C.
et al.
Cuillandre, J. -C., Bertin, E., Bolzonella, M., Bouy, H., Gwyn, S., Isani, S., Kluge, M., Lai, O., Lançon, A., Lang, D. A., Laureijs, R., Saifollahi, T., Schirmer, M., Stone, C., Abdurro'uf, Aghanim, N., Altieri, B., Annibali, F., Atek, H., Awad, P., Baes, M., Bañados, E., Barrado, D., Belladitta, S., Belokurov, V., Boselli, A., Bournaud, F., Bovy, J., Bowler, R. A. A., Buenadicha, G., Buitrago, F., Cantiello, M., Carollo, D., Codis, S., Collins, M. L. M., Congedo, G., Dalessandro, E., de Lapparent, V., De Paolis, F., Diego, J. M., Dimauro, P., Dinis, J., Dole, H., Duc, P. -A., Erkal, D., Ezziati, M., Ferguson, A. M. N., Ferré-Mateu, A., Franco, A., Gavazzi, R., George, K., Gillard, W., Golden-Marx, J. B., Goldman, B., Gonzalez, A. H., Habas, R., Hartley, W. G., Hatch, N. A., Kohley, R., Hoar, J., Howell, J. M., Hunt, L. K., Jablonka, P., Jauzac, M., Kang, Y., Knapen, J. H., Kneib, J. -P., Kuzma, P. B., Larsen, S. S., Marchal, O., Martín-Fleitas, J., Marcos-Arenal, P., Marleau, F. R., Martín, E. L., Massari, D., McConnachie, A. W., Meneghetti, M., Miluzio, M., Miro Carretero, J., Miyatake, H., Mondelin, M., Montes, M., Mora, A., Müller, O., Nally, C., Noeske, K., Nucita, A. A., Oesch, P. A., Oguri, M., Peletier, R. F., Poulain, M., Quilley, L., Racca, G. D., Rejkuba, M., Rhodes, J., Rocci, P. -F., Román, J., Sacquegna, S., Saremi, E., Scaramella, R., Schinnerer, E., Serjeant, S., Sola, E., Sorce, J. G., Tarsitano, F., Tereno, I., Toft, S., Tortora, C., Urbano, M., Venhola, A., Voggel, K., Weaver, J. R., Xu, X., Žerjal, M., Zöller, R., Andreon, S., Auricchio, N., Baccigalupi, C., Baldi, M., Balestra, A., Bardelli, S., Basset, A., Bender, R., Bodendorf, C., Branchini, E., Brau-Nogue, S., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Casas, S., Castander, F. J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., Cropper, M., Cuby, J. -G., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Di Giorgio, A. M., Douspis, M., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Fabricius, M., Farina, M., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Fotopoulou, S., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Gómez-Alvarez, P., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hoekstra, H., Holmes, W., Hook, I., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Jhabvala, M., Keihänen, E., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kubik, B., Kuijken, K., Kümmel, M., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lahav, O., Liebing, P., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lindholm, V., Lloro, I., Maino, D., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Martinet, N., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Maurogordato, S., McCracken, H. J., Medinaceli, E., Mellier, Y., Meylan, G., Mohr, J. J., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Nakajima, R., Nichol, R. C., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Peacock, J. A., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Pozzetti, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Refregier, A., Renzi, A., Riccio, G., Rix, Hans-Walter, Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Schneider, P., Schrabback, T., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Simon, P., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Skottfelt, J., Stanco, L., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Teplitz, H. I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Tsyganov, A., Tutusaus, I., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Verdoes Kleijn, G., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Williams, O. R., Zamorani, G., Zucca, E., Burigana, C., Casenove, P., Scottez, V., Scott, D.,
Published May 2025
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025 539 3
ArXiv: 2407.20328
Phillips, Anya
et al.
Phillips, Anya, Kochanek, C. S.,
Published May 2025
The Astrophysical Journal, 2025 984 1
ArXiv: 2501.05431
Hon, Marc
et al.
Hon, Marc, Rappaport, Saul, Shporer, Avi, Vanderburg, Andrew, Collins, Karen A., Watkins, Cristilyn N., Schwarz, Richard P., Barkaoui, Khalid, Yee, Samuel W., Winn, Joshua N., Polanski, Alex S., Gilbert, Emily A., Ciardi, David R., Audenaert, Jeroen, Fong, William, Haviland, Jack, Hesse, Katharine, Muthukrishna, Daniel, Petitpas, Glen, Hadjiyska Schmelzer, Ellie, Narita, Norio, Fukui, Akihiko, Seager, Sara, Ricker, George R.,
Published May 2025
The Astronomical Journal, 2025 169 5
ArXiv: 2503.20069
Bieryla, Allyson
et al.
Bieryla, Allyson, Dong, Jiayin, Zhou, George, Eastman, Jason D., Mayorga, L. C., Latham, David W., Carter, Brad, Huang, Chelsea X., Quinn, Samuel N., Collins, Karen A., Abe, Lyu, Beletsky, Yuri, Brahm, Rafael, Colón, Knicole D., Essack, Zahra, Guillot, Tristan, Henning, Thomas, Hobson, Melissa J., Horne, Keith, Jenkins, Jon M., Jones, Matías I., Jordán, Andrés, Osip, David, Ricker, George R., Rodriguez, Joseph E., Schulte, Jack, Schwarz, Richard P., Seager, Sara, Shporer, Avi, Suarez, Olga, Tan, Thiam-Guan, Ting, Eric B., Triaud, Amaury, Vanderburg, Andrew, Villaseñor, Jesus Noel, Vowell, Noah, Watkins, Cristilyn N., Winn, Joshua N., Ziegler, Carl,