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 Jun 2025
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025 540 1
Vach, Sydney
et al.
Vach, Sydney, Zhou, George, Huang, Chelsea X., Mann, Andrew W., Barber, Madyson G., Bieryla, Allyson, Latham, David W., Collins, Karen A., Rogers, James G., Bouma, Luke G., Douglas, Stephanie T., Quinn, Samuel N., Fairnington, Tyler R., Krüger, Joachim, Shporer, Avi, Collins, Kevin I., Srdoc, Gregor, Schwarz, Richard P., Relles, Howard M., Barkaoui, Khalid, McLeod, Kim K., Schneider, Alayna, Narita, Norio, Fukui, Akihiko, Howell, Steve B., Littlefield, Colin, Deveny, Sarah, Sefako, Ramotholo, Fong, William, Mireles, Ismael, Torres, Guillermo, Ricker, George R., Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N.,
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 Jun 2025
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025 540 1
ArXiv: 2504.21686
Onori, F.
et al.
Onori, F., Nicholl, M., Ramsden, P., McGee, S., Roy, R., Li, W., Arcavi, I., Anderson, J. P., Brocato, E., Bronikowski, M., Cenko, S. B., Chambers, K., Chen, T. W., Clark, P., Concepcion, E., Farah, J., Flammini, D., González-Gaitán, S., Gromadzki, M., Gutiérrez, C. P., Hammerstein, E., Hinds, K. R., Inserra, C., Kankare, E., Kumar, A., Makrygianni, L., Mattila, S., Matilainen, K. K., Müller-Bravo, T. E., Petrushevska, T., Pignata, G., Piranomonte, S., Reynolds, T. M., Stein, R., Wang, Y., Wevers, T., Yao, Y., Young, D. R.,
Published Jun 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2025 698
Zeng, Xiangyun
et al.
Zeng, Xiangyun, Luo, Yijing, Wang, Xiaofeng, Li, Xin, Yang, Yi, Zheng, Sheng, Zeng, Shuguang, Huang, Yao, Li, Sai, Howell, D. Andrew, Bostroem, K. Azalee, McCully, Curtis, Esamdin, Ali, Andrews, Moira, Farah, Joseph R., Newsome, Megan, Zhang, Haonan, Zhang, Peng, Hu, Lei,