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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 May 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 503 3

ASASSN-18am/SN 2018gk: an overluminous Type IIb supernova from a massive progenitor

Bose, Subhash  et al. Bose, Subhash, Dong, Subo, Kochanek, C. S., Stritzinger, M. D., Ashall, Chris, Benetti, Stefano, Falco, E., Filippenko, Alexei V., Pastorello, Andrea, Prieto, Jose L., Somero, Auni, Sukhbold, Tuguldur, Zhang, Junbo, Auchettl, Katie, Brink, Thomas G., Brown, J. S., Chen, Ping, Fiore, A., Grupe, Dirk, Holoien, T. W. -S., Lundqvist, Peter, Mattila, Seppo, Mutel, Robert, Pooley, David, Post, R. S., Reddy, Naveen, Reynolds, Thomas M., Shappee, Benjamin J., Stanek, K. Z., Thompson, Todd A., Villanueva, S., Jr., Zheng, WeiKang,

Published May 2021
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 503 1

A self-supervised, physics-aware, Bayesian neural network architecture for modelling galaxy emission-line kinematics

Dawson, James M.  et al. Dawson, James M., Davis, Timothy A., Gomez, Edward L., Schock, Justus,

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 Apr 2021
The Astronomical Journal, 2021 161 4

TESS Delivers Five New Hot Giant Planets Orbiting Bright Stars from the Full-frame Images

Rodriguez, Joseph E.  et al. Rodriguez, Joseph E., Quinn, Samuel N., Zhou, George, Vanderburg, Andrew, Nielsen, Louise D., Wittenmyer, Robert A., Brahm, Rafael, Reed, Phillip A., Huang, Chelsea X., Vach, Sydney, Ciardi, David R., Oelkers, Ryan J., Stassun, Keivan G., Hellier, Coel, Gaudi, B. Scott, Eastman, Jason D., Collins, Karen A., Bieryla, Allyson, Christian, Sam, Latham, David W., Carleo, Ilaria, Wright, Duncan J., Matthews, Elisabeth, Gonzales, Erica J., Ziegler, Carl, Dressing, Courtney D., Howell, Steve B., Tan, Thiam-Guan, Wittrock, Justin, Plavchan, Peter, McLeod, Kim K., Baker, David, Wang, Gavin, Radford, Don J., Schwarz, Richard P., Esposito, Massimiliano, Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland K., Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Addison, Brett, Anderson, D. R., Barclay, Thomas, Beatty, Thomas G., Berlind, Perry, Bouchy, Francois, Bowen, Michael, Bowler, Brendan P., Brasseur, C. E., Briceño, César, Caldwell, Douglas A., Calkins, Michael L., Cartwright, Scott, Chaturvedi, Priyanka, Chaverot, Guillaume, Chimaladinne, Sudhish, Christiansen, Jessie L., Collins, Kevin I., Crossfield, Ian J. M., Eastridge, Kevin, Espinoza, Néstor, Esquerdo, Gilbert A., Feliz, Dax L., Fenske, Tyler, Fong, William, Gan, Tianjun, Giacalone, Steven, Gill, Holden, Gordon, Lindsey, Granados, A., Grieves, Nolan, Guenther, Eike W., Guerrero, Natalia, Henning, Thomas, Henze, Christopher E., Hesse, Katharine, Hobson, Melissa J., Horner, Jonathan, James, David J., Jensen, Eric L. N., Jimenez, Mary, Jordán, Andrés, Kane, Stephen R., Kielkopf, John, Kim, Kingsley, Kuhn, Rudolf B., Latouf, Natasha, Law, Nicholas M., Levine, Alan M., Lund, Michael B., Mann, Andrew W., Mao, Shude, Matson, Rachel A., Mengel, Matthew W., Mink, Jessica, Newman, Patrick, O'Dwyer, Tanner, Okumura, Jack, Palle, Enric, Pepper, Joshua, Quintana, Elisa V., Sarkis, Paula, Savel, Arjun B., Schlieder, Joshua E., Schnaible, Chloe, Shporer, Avi, Sefako, Ramotholo, Seidel, Julia V., Siverd, Robert J., Skinner, Brett, Stalport, Manu, Stevens, Daniel J., Stibbards, Caitlin, Tinney, C. G., West, R. G., Yahalomi, Daniel A., Zhang, Hui,

Published Apr 2021
The Astronomical Journal, 2021 161 4

TIC 168789840: A Sextuply Eclipsing Sextuple Star System

Powell, Brian P.  et al. Powell, Brian P., Kostov, Veselin B., Rappaport, Saul A., Borkovits, Tamás, Zasche, Petr, Tokovinin, Andrei, Kruse, Ethan, Latham, David W., Montet, Benjamin T., Jensen, Eric L. N., Jayaraman, Rahul, Collins, Karen A., Mašek, Martin, Hellier, Coel, Evans, Phil, Tan, Thiam-Guan, Schlieder, Joshua E., Torres, Guillermo, Smale, Alan P., Friedman, Adam H., Barclay, Thomas, Gagliano, Robert, Quintana, Elisa V., Jacobs, Thomas L., Gilbert, Emily A., Kristiansen, Martti H., Colón, Knicole D., LaCourse, Daryll M., Olmschenk, Greg, Omohundro, Mark, Schnittman, Jeremy D., Schwengeler, Hans M., Barry, Richard K., Terentev, Ivan A., Boyd, Patricia, Schmitt, Allan R., Quinn, Samuel N., Vanderburg, Andrew, Palle, Enric, Armstrong, James, Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland, Seager, S., Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Caldwell, Douglas A., Wohler, Bill, Shiao, Bernie, Burke, Christopher J., Daylan, Tansu, Villaseñor, Joel,