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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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Recent Publications

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Published Mar 2025
The Astrophysical Journal, 2025 981 1
ArXiv: 2301.07359

MAMMOTH-Subaru. IV. Large Scale Structure and Clustering Analysis of Lyα Emitters and Lyα Blobs at z = 2.2–2.3
Zhang, Haibin  et al. Zhang, Haibin, Cai, Zheng, Li, Mingyu, Liang, Yongming, Kashikawa, Nobunari, Ma, Ke, Wu, Yunjing, Li, Qiong, Johnson, Sean D., Kikuta, Satoshi, Ouchi, Masami, Fan, Xiaohui, Ning, Yuanhang,

Published Mar 2025
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025 537 4
ArXiv: 2501.14355

The NCORES programme: precise planetary masses, null results, and insight into the planet mass distribution near the radius gap
Armstrong, David J.  et al. Armstrong, David J., Osborn, Ares, Burn, Remo, Venturini, Julia, Adibekyan, Vardan, Bonfanti, Andrea, Burt, Jennifer A., Collins, Karen A., Delgado Mena, Elisa, Hadjigeorghiou, Andreas, Howell, Steve, Quinn, Sam, Sousa, Sergio G., Keniger, Marcelo Aron F., Barrado, David, Barros, S. C. C., Bayliss, Daniel, Bouchy, François, Castro-González, Amadeo, Collins, Kevin I., Conti, Denis M., Crossfield, Ian M., Diaz, Rodrigo, Dumusque, Xavier, Feng, Fabo, Lester, Kathryn V., Lillo-Box, Jorge, Matson, Rachel A., Matthews, Elisabeth C., Mordasini, Christoph, Murgas, Felipe, Osborn, Hugh P., Palle, Enric, Santos, Nuno, Schwarz, Richard P., Silva, Tomás Azevedo, Stassun, Keivan, Strøm, Paul, Tan, Thiam-Guan, Teske, Johanna, Wang, Gavin, Wheatley, Peter J.,

Published Mar 2025
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025 537 3
ArXiv: 2409.02666

SN 2021foa: the bridge between SN IIn and Ibn
Gangopadhyay, Anjasha  et al. Gangopadhyay, Anjasha, Dukiya, Naveen, Moriya, Takashi J., Tanaka, Masaomi, Maeda, Keiichi, Howell, D. Andrew, Singh, Mridweeka, Singh, Avinash, Sollerman, Jesper, Kawabata, Koji S., Brennan, Seán J., Pellegrino, Craig, Dastidar, Raya, Nakaoka, Tatsuya, Kawabata, Miho, Misra, Kuntal, Schulze, Steve, Chandra, Poonam, Taguchi, Kenta, Sahu, Devendra K., McCully, Curtis, Bostroem, K. Azalee, Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla, Newsome, Megan, Hiramatsu, Daichi, Takei, Yuki, Yamanaka, Masayuki, Tajitsu, Akito, Isogai, Keisuke,

Published Feb 2025
The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 2025 8
ArXiv: 2409.02983

Precise and Accurate Mass and Radius Measurements of Fifteen Galactic Red Giants in Detached Eclipsing Binaries
Rowan, Dominick M.  et al. Rowan, Dominick M., Stanek, Krzysztof Z., Kochanek, Christopher S., Thompson, Todd A., Jayasinghe, Tharindu, Blaum, Jacqueline, Fulton, Benjamin J., Ilyin, Ilya, Isaacson, Howard, LeBaron, Natalie, Lu, Jessica R., Martin, David V.,

Published Feb 2025
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025 537 2
ArXiv: 2406.11552

A systematically selected sample of luminous, long-duration, ambiguous nuclear transients
Wiseman, P.  et al. Wiseman, P., Williams, R. D., Arcavi, I., Galbany, L., Graham, M. J., Hönig, S., Newsome, M., Subrayan, B., Sullivan, M., Wang, Y., Ilić, D., Nicholl, M., Oates, S., Petrushevska, T., Smith, K. W.,