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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

Recent Publications

Publications Bibliometrics

Published Apr 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 502 2

SN 2017gci: a nearby Type I Superluminous Supernova with a bumpy tail

Fiore, A.  et al. Fiore, A., Chen, T. -W., Jerkstrand, A., Benetti, S., Ciolfi, R., Inserra, C., Cappellaro, E., Pastorello, A., Leloudas, G., Schulze, S., Berton, M., Burke, J., McCully, C., Fong, W., Galbany, L., Gromadzki, M., Gutiérrez, C. P., Hiramatsu, D., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D. A., Kankare, E., Lunnan, R., Müller-Bravo, T. E., O'Neill, D., Nicholl, M., Rau, A., Sollerman, J., Terreran, G., Valenti, S., Young, D. R.,

Published Mar 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 501 4

Planet Hunters TESS II: findings from the first two years of TESS

Eisner, N. L.  et al. Eisner, N. L., Barragán, O., Lintott, C., Aigrain, S., Nicholson, B., Boyajian, T. S., Howell, S., Johnston, C., Lakeland, B., Miller, G., McMaster, A., Parviainen, H., Safron, E. J., Schwamb, M. E., Trouille, L., Vaughan, S., Zicher, N., Allen, C., Allen, S., Bouslog, M., Johnson, C., Simon, M. N., Wolfenbarger, Z., Baeten, E. M. L., Bundy, D. M., Hoffman, T.,

Published Feb 2021
The Astronomical Journal, 2021 161 2

TESS Discovery of a Super-Earth and Three Sub-Neptunes Hosted by the Bright, Sun-like Star HD 108236

Daylan, Tansu  et al. Daylan, Tansu, Pinglé, Kartik, Wright, Jasmine, Günther, Maximilian N., Stassun, Keivan G., Kane, Stephen R., Vanderburg, Andrew, Jontof-Hutter, Daniel, Rodriguez, Joseph E., Shporer, Avi, Huang, Chelsea X., Mikal-Evans, Thomas, Badenas-Agusti, Mariona, Collins, Karen A., Rackham, Benjamin V., Quinn, Samuel N., Cloutier, Ryan, Collins, Kevin I., Guerra, Pere, Jensen, Eric L. N., Kielkopf, John F., Massey, Bob, Schwarz, Richard P., Charbonneau, David, Lissauer, Jack J., Irwin, Jonathan M., Baştürk, Özgür, Fulton, Benjamin, Soubkiou, Abderahmane, Zouhair, Benkhaldoun, Howell, Steve B., Ziegler, Carl, Briceño, César, Law, Nicholas, Mann, Andrew W., Scott, Nic, Furlan, Elise, Ciardi, David R., Matson, Rachel, Hellier, Coel, Anderson, David R., Butler, R. Paul, Crane, Jeffrey D., Teske, Johanna K., Shectman, Stephen A., Kristiansen, Martti H., Terentev, Ivan A., Schwengeler, Hans Martin, Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland, Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Berta-Thompson, Zachory K., Bouma, Luke G., Fong, William, Furesz, Gabor, Henze, Christopher E., Morgan, Edward H., Quintana, Elisa, Ting, Eric B., Twicken, Joseph D.,

Published Feb 2021
The Astronomical Journal, 2021 161 2

The TESS-Keck Survey. II. An Ultra-short-period Rocky Planet and Its Siblings Transiting the Galactic Thick-disk Star TOI-561

Weiss, Lauren M.  et al. Weiss, Lauren M., Dai, Fei, Huber, Daniel, Brewer, John M., Collins, Karen A., Ciardi, David R., Matthews, Elisabeth C., Ziegler, Carl, Howell, Steve B., Batalha, Natalie M., Crossfield, Ian J. M., Dressing, Courtney, Fulton, Benjamin, Howard, Andrew W., Isaacson, Howard, Kane, Stephen R., Petigura, Erik A., Robertson, Paul, Roy, Arpita, Rubenzahl, Ryan A., Twicken, Joseph D., Claytor, Zachary R., Stassun, Keivan G., MacDougall, Mason G., Chontos, Ashley, Giacalone, Steven, Dalba, Paul A., Mocnik, Teo, Hill, Michelle L., Beard, Corey, Akana Murphy, Joseph M., Rosenthal, Lee J., Behmard, Aida, Van Zandt, Judah, Lubin, Jack, Kosiarek, Molly R., Lund, Michael B., Christiansen, Jessie L., Matson, Rachel A., Beichman, Charles A., Schlieder, Joshua E., Gonzales, Erica J., Briceño, César, Law, Nicholas, Mann, Andrew W., Collins, Kevin I., Evans, Phil, Fukui, Akihiko, Jensen, Eric L. N., Murgas, Felipe, Narita, Norio, Palle, Enric, Parviainen, Hannu, Schwarz, Richard P., Tan, Thiam-Guan, Acton, Jack S., Bryant, Edward M., Chaushev, Alexander, Gill, Sam, Eigmüller, Philipp, Jenkins, Jon, Ricker, George, Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N.,

Published Feb 2021
The Astronomical Journal, 2021 161 2

TOI-811b and TOI-852b: New Transiting Brown Dwarfs with Similar Masses and Very Different Radii and Ages from the TESS Mission

Carmichael, Theron W.  et al. Carmichael, Theron W., Quinn, Samuel N., Zhou, George, Grieves, Nolan, Irwin, Jonathan M., Stassun, Keivan G., Vanderburg, Andrew M., Winn, Joshua N., Bouchy, Francois, Brasseur, Clara E., Briceño, César, Caldwell, Douglas A., Charbonneau, David, Collins, Karen A., Colon, Knicole D., Eastman, Jason D., Fausnaugh, Michael, Fong, William, Fűrész, Gábor, Huang, Chelsea, Jenkins, Jon M., Kielkopf, John F., Latham, David W., Law, Nicholas, Lund, Michael B., Mann, Andrew W., Ricker, George R., Rodriguez, Joseph E., Schwarz, Richard P., Shporer, Avi, Tenenbaum, Peter, Wood, Mackenna L., Ziegler, Carl,