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 Dec 2023
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 166 6
ArXiv: 2302.04922
Wittrock, Justin M.
et al.
Wittrock, Justin M., Plavchan, Peter P., Cale, Bryson L., Barclay, Thomas, Ludwig, Mathis R., Schwarz, Richard P., Mékarnia, Djamel, Triaud, Amaury H. M. J., Abe, Lyu, Suarez, Olga, Guillot, Tristan, Conti, Dennis M., Collins, Karen A., Waite, Ian A., Kielkopf, John F., Collins, Kevin I., Dreizler, Stefan, El Mufti, Mohammed, Feliz, Dax L., Gaidos, Eric, Geneser, Claire S., Horne, Keith D., Kane, Stephen R., Lowrance, Patrick J., Martioli, Eder, Radford, Don J., Reefe, Michael A., Roccatagliata, Veronica, Shporer, Avi, Stassun, Keivan G., Stockdale, Christopher, Tan, Thiam-Guan, Tanner, Angelle M., Vega, Laura D.,
Published Dec 2023
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 526 2
ArXiv: 2306.12858
Graur, O.
et al.
Graur, O., Padilla Gonzalez, E., Burke, J., Deckers, M., Jha, S. W., Galbany, L., Karamehmetoglu, E., Stritzinger, M. D., Maguire, K., Howell, D. A., Fisher, R., Fullard, A. G., Handberg, R., Hiramatsu, D., Hosseinzadeh, G., Kerzendorf, W. E., McCully, C., Newsome, M., Pellegrino, C., Rest, A., Riess, A. G., Seitenzahl, I. R., Shara, M. M., Shen, K. J., Terreran, G., Zurek, D. R.,
Published Nov 2023
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 526 1
ArXiv: 2307.05826
Merz, Grant
et al.
Merz, Grant, Liu, Yichen, Burke, Colin J., Aleo, Patrick D., Liu, Xin, Carrasco Kind, Matias, Kindratenko, Volodymyr, Liu, Yufeng,
Published Nov 2023
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 526 1
ArXiv: 2308.12137
Osborn, Ares
et al.
Osborn, Ares, Armstrong, David J., Fernández Fernández, Jorge, Knierim, Henrik, Adibekyan, Vardan, Collins, Karen A., Delgado-Mena, Elisa, Fridlund, Malcolm, Gomes da Silva, João, Hellier, Coel, Jackson, David G., King, George W., Lillo-Box, Jorge, Matson, Rachel A., Matthews, Elisabeth C., Santos, Nuno C., Sousa, Sérgio G., Stassun, Keivan G., Tan, Thiam-Guan, Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland, Latham, David W., Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Bayliss, Daniel, Bouma, Luke G., Ciardi, David R., Collins, Kevin I., Colón, Knicole D., Crossfield, Ian J. M., Demangeon, Olivier D. S., Díaz, Rodrigo F., Dorn, Caroline, Dumusque, Xavier, Keniger, Marcelo Aron Fetzner, Figueira, Pedro, Gan, Tianjun, Goeke, Robert F., Hadjigeorghiou, Andreas, Hawthorn, Faith, Helled, Ravit, Howell, Steve B., Nielsen, Louise D., Osborn, Hugh P., Quinn, Samuel N., Sefako, Ramotholo, Shporer, Avi, Strøm, Paul A., Twicken, Joseph D., Vanderburg, Andrew, Wheatley, Peter J.,
Published Nov 2023
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 526 1
ArXiv: 2309.07800
Ertini, K.
et al.
Ertini, K., Folatelli, G., Martinez, L., Bersten, M. C., Anderson, J. P., Ashall, C., Baron, E., Bose, S., Brown, P. J., Burns, C., DerKacy, J. M., Ferrari, L., Galbany, L., Hsiao, E., Kumar, S., Lu, J., Mazzali, P., Morrell, N., Orellana, M., Pessi, P. J., Phillips, M. M., Piro, A. L., Polin, A., Shahbandeh, M., Shappee, B. J., Stritzinger, M., Suntzeff, N. B., Tucker, M., Elias-Rosa, N., Kuncarayakti, H., Gutiérrez, C. P., Kozyreva, A., Müller-Bravo, T. E., Chen, T. -W., Hinkle, J. T., Payne, A. V., Székely, P., Szalai, T., Barna, B., Könyves-Tóth, R., Bánhidi, D., Bíró, I. B., Csányi, I., Kriskovits, L., Pál, A., Szabó, Zs, Szakáts, R., Vida, K., Vinkó, J., Gromadzki, M., Harvey, L., Nicholl, M., Paraskeva, E., Young, D. R., Englert, B.,