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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.

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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.

LCO Science Groups

  Exoplanets
 Solar System
  Supernovae

Enhancing Community Science

  AEON
 TOM Toolkit
  Observatory Control System
  Astrophysics with LSST
  MARS

Recent Publications

Publications Bibliometrics

Published Nov 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 507 3
ArXiv: 2108.06654

SN2017jgh: a high-cadence complete shock cooling light curve of a SN IIb with the Kepler telescope

Armstrong, P.  et al. Armstrong, P., Tucker, B. E., Rest, A., Ridden-Harper, R., Zenati, Y., Piro, A. L., Hinton, S., Lidman, C., Margheim, S., Narayan, G., Shaya, E., Garnavich, P., Kasen, D., Villar, V., Zenteno, A., Arcavi, I., Drout, M., Foley, R. J., Wheeler, J., Anais, J., Campillay, A., Coulter, D., Dimitriadis, G., Jones, D., Kilpatrick, C. D., Muñoz-Elgueta, N., Rojas-Bravo, C., Vargas-González, J., Bulger, J., Chambers, K., Huber, M., Lowe, T., Magnier, E., Shappee, B. J., Smartt, S., Smith, K. W., Barclay, T., Barentsen, G., Dotson, J., Gully-Santiago, M., Hedges, C., Howell, S., Cody, A., Auchettl, K., Bódi, A., Bognár, Zs, Brimacombe, J., Brown, P., Cseh, B., Galbany, L., Hiramatsu, D., Holoien, T. W. -S., Howell, D. A., Jha, S. W., Könyves-Tóth, R., Kriskovics, L., McCully, C., Milne, P., Muñoz, J., Pan, Y., Pál, A., Sai, H., Sárneczky, K., Smith, N., Sódor, Á., Szabó, R., Szakáts, R., Valenti, S., Vinkó, J., Wang, X., Zhang, K., Zsidi, G.,

Published Oct 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 507 1
ArXiv: arXiv:2107.12306

Swift/UVOT follow-up of gravitational wave alerts in the O3 era

Oates, S. R.  et al. Oates, S. R., Marshall, F. E., Breeveld, A. A., Kuin, N. P. M., Brown, P. J., De Pasquale, M., Evans, P. A., Fenney, A. J., Gronwall, C., Kennea, J. A., Klingler, N. J., Page, M. J., Siegel, M. H., Tohuvavohu, A., Ambrosi, E., Barthelmy, S. D., Beardmore, A. P., Bernardini, M. G., Campana, S., Caputo, R., Cenko, S. B., Cusumano, G., D'Aì, A., D'Avanzo, P., D'Elia, V., Giommi, P., Hartmann, D. H., Krimm, H. A., Laha, S., Malesani, D. B., Melandri, A., Nousek, J. A., O'Brien, P. T., Osborne, J. P., Pagani, C., Page, K. L., Palmer, D. M., Perri, M., Racusin, J. L., Sakamoto, T., Sbarufatti, B., Schlieder, J. E., Tagliaferri, G., Troja, E.,

Published Oct 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 507 2
ArXiv: 2107.14015

HD 183579b: a warm sub-Neptune transiting a solar twin detected by TESS

Gan, Tianjun  et al. Gan, Tianjun, Bedell, Megan, Wang, Sharon Xuesong, Foreman-Mackey, Daniel, Meléndez, Jorge, Mao, Shude, Stassun, Keivan G., Howell, Steve B., Ziegler, Carl, Wittenmyer, Robert A., Hellier, Coel, Collins, Karen A., Shporer, Avi, Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland, Latham, David W., Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Addison, Brett C., Ballard, Sarah, Barclay, Thomas, Bean, Jacob L., Bowler, Brendan P., Briceño, César, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Dittman, Jason, Horner, Jonathan, Jensen, Eric L. N., Kane, Stephen R., Kielkopf, John, Kreidberg, Laura, Law, Nicholas, Mann, Andrew W., Mengel, Matthew W., Morgan, Edward H., Okumura, Jack, Osborn, Hugh P., Paegert, Martin, Plavchan, Peter, Schwarz, Richard P., Shiao, Bernie, Smith, Jeffrey C., Spina, Lorenzo, Tinney, C. G., Torres, Guillermo, Twicken, Joseph D., Vezie, Michael, Wang, Gavin, Wright, Duncan J., Zhang, Hui,

Published Oct 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 506 4
ArXiv: 2107.12017

SN 2019hcc: a Type II supernova displaying early O II lines

Parrag, Eleonora  et al. Parrag, Eleonora, Inserra, Cosimo, Schulze, Steve, Anderson, Joseph, Chen, Ting-Wan, Leloudas, Giorgios, Galbany, Lluis, Gutiérrez, Claudia P., Hiramatsu, Daichi, Kankare, Erkki, Müller-Bravo, Tomás E., Nicholl, Matt, Pignata, Giuliano, Cartier, Regis, Gromadzki, Mariusz, Kozyreva, Alexandra, Rau, Arne, Burke, Jamison, Howell, D. Andrew, McCully, Curtis, Pellegrino, Craig,

Published Oct 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 507 2

TOI-431/HIP 26013: a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting a bright, early K dwarf, with a third RV planet

Osborn, Ares  et al. Osborn, Ares, Armstrong, David J., Cale, Bryson, Brahm, Rafael, Wittenmyer, Robert A., Dai, Fei, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Bryant, Edward M., Adibekyan, Vardan, Cloutier, Ryan, Collins, Karen A., Delgado Mena, E., Fridlund, Malcolm, Hellier, Coel, Howell, Steve B., King, George W., Lillo-Box, Jorge, Otegi, Jon, Sousa, S., Stassun, Keivan G., Matthews, Elisabeth C., Ziegler, Carl, Ricker, George, Vanderspek, Roland, Latham, David W., Seager, S., Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Acton, Jack S., Addison, Brett C., Anderson, David R., Ballard, Sarah, Barrado, David, Barros, Susana C. C., Batalha, Natalie, Bayliss, Daniel, Barclay, Thomas, Benneke, Björn, Berberian, John, Bouchy, Francois, Bowler, Brendan P., Briceño, César, Burke, Christopher J., Burleigh, Matthew R., Casewell, Sarah L., Ciardi, David, Collins, Kevin I., Cooke, Benjamin F., Demangeon, Olivier D. S., Díaz, Rodrigo F., Dorn, C., Dragomir, Diana, Dressing, Courtney, Dumusque, Xavier, Espinoza, Néstor, Figueira, P., Fulton, Benjamin, Furlan, E., Gaidos, E., Geneser, C., Gill, Samuel, Goad, Michael R., Gonzales, Erica J., Gorjian, Varoujan, Günther, Maximilian N., Helled, Ravit, Henderson, Beth A., Henning, Thomas, Hogan, Aleisha, Hojjatpanah, Saeed, Horner, Jonathan, Howard, Andrew W., Hoyer, Sergio, Huber, Dan, Isaacson, Howard, Jenkins, James S., Jensen, Eric L. N., Jordán, Andrés, Kane, Stephen R., Kidwell, Richard C., Kielkopf, John, Law, Nicholas, Lendl, Monika, Lund, M., Matson, Rachel A., Mann, Andrew W., McCormac, James, Mengel, Matthew W., Morales, Farisa Y., Nielsen, Louise D., Okumura, Jack, Osborn, Hugh P., Petigura, Erik A., Plavchan, Peter, Pollacco, Don, Quintana, Elisa V., Raynard, Liam, Robertson, Paul, Rose, Mark E., Roy, Arpita, Reefe, Michael, Santerne, Alexandre, Santos, Nuno C., Sarkis, Paula, Schlieder, J., Schwarz, Richard P., Scott, Nicholas J., Shporer, Avi, Smith, A. M. S., Stibbard, C., Stockdale, Chris, Strøm, Paul A., Twicken, Joseph D., Tan, Thiam-Guan, Tanner, A., Teske, J., Tilbrook, Rosanna H., Tinney, C. G., Udry, Stephane, Villaseñor, Jesus Noel, Vines, Jose I., Wang, Sharon X., Weiss, Lauren M., West, Richard G., Wheatley, Peter J., Wright, Duncan J., Zhang, Hui, Zohrabi, F.,