Science

Exoplanets

NEOs & Asteroids

Supernovae

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 asteroids; objects which need to be observed for long periods in darkness like exoplanets and binary star systems.  

Recent publications

• Identification of Young Stellar Variables with KELT for K2 II: The Upper Scorpius Association

  Published Jan 2018: 2018MNRAS.473.1231A
  Ansdell, Megan, Oelkers, Ryan J., Rodriguez, Joseph E., Gaidos, Eric, Somers, Garrett, Mamajek, Eric, Cargile, Phillip A., Stassun, Keivan G., Pepper, Joshua, Stevens, Daniel J., Beatty, Thomas G., Siverd, Robert J., Lund, Michael B., Kuhn, Rudolf B., James, David, Gaudi, B. Scott

• An 800 million solar mass black hole in a significantly neutral universe at redshift 7.5

  Published Jan 2018: 2018Natur.553..473B
  Bañados, Eduardo, Venemans, Bram P., Mazzucchelli, Chiara, Farina, Emanuele P., Walter, Fabian, Wang, Feige, Decarli, Roberto, Stern, Daniel, Fan, Xiaohui, Davies, Frederick B., Hennawi, Joseph F., Simcoe, Robert A., Turner, Monica L., Rix, Hans-Walter, Yang, Jinyi, Kelson, Daniel D., Rudie, Gwen C., Winters, Jan Martin

• Extremely late photometry of SN~2011fe

  Published Dec 2017: 2017MNRAS.472.2534K
  Kerzendorf, W. E., McCully, C., Taubenberger, S., Jerkstrand, A., Seitenzahl, I., Ruiter, A. J., Spyromilio, J., Long, K. S., Fransson, C.

• Nebular-Phase Spectra of Nearby Type Ia Supernovae

  Published Dec 2017: 2017MNRAS.472.3437G
  Graham, M. L., Kumar, S., Hosseinzadeh, G., Hiramatsu, D., Arcavi, I., Howell, D. A., Valenti, S., Sand, D. J., Parrent, J. T., McCully, C., Filippenko, A. V.

• WASP-167b/KELT-13b: Joint discovery of a hot Jupiter transiting a rapidly-rotating F1V star

  Published Nov 2017: 2017MNRAS.471.2743T
  Temple, L. Y., Hellier, C., Albrow, M. D., Anderson, D. R., Bayliss, D., Beatty, T. G., Bieryla, A., Brown, D. J. A., Cargile, P. A., Collier Cameron, A., Collins, K. A., Colón, K. D., Curtis, I. A., D'Ago, G., Delrez, L., Eastman, J., Gaudi, B. S., Gillon, M., Gregorio, J., James, D., Jehin, E., Joner, M. D., Kielkopf, J. F., Kuhn, R. B., Labadie-Bartz, J., Latham, D. W., Lendl, M., Lund, M. B., Malpas, A. L., Maxted, P. F. L., Myers, G., Oberst, T. E., Pepe, F., Pepper, J., Pollacco, D., Queloz, D., Rodriguez, J. E., Ségransan, D., Siverd, R. J., Smalley, B., Stassun, K. G., Stevens, D. J., Stockdale, C., Tan, T. G., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Udry, S., Villanueva, S., West, R. G., Zhou, G.