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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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Published Nov 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024 534 4
ArXiv: 2406.09595

Nies, Molly  et al. Nies, Molly, Mireles, Ismael, Bouchy, François, Dragomir, Diana, Nicholson, Belinda A., Eisner, Nora L., Sousa, Sergio G., Collins, Karen A., Howell, Steve B., Ziegler, Carl, Hellier, Coel, Addison, Brett, Ballard, Sarah, Bowler, Brendan P., Briceño, César, Clark, Catherine A., Conti, Dennis M., Dumusque, Xavier, Edwards, Billy, Gnilka, Crystal L., Hobson, Melissa, Horner, Jonathan, Kane, Stephen R., Kielkopf, John, Lavie, Baptiste, Law, Nicholas, Lendl, Monika, Littlefield, Colin, Liu, Huigen, Mann, Andrew W., Mengel, Matthew W., Oddo, Dominic, Okumura, Jack, Palle, Enric, Plavchan, Peter, Psaridi, Angelica, Santos, Nuno C., Schwarz, Richard P., Shporer, Avi, Wittenmyer, Robert A., Wright, Duncan J., Zhang, Hui, Watanabe, David, Medina, Jennifer V., Villaseñor, Joel, Ting, Eric B., Christiansen, Jessie L., Winn, Joshua N., Stassun, Keivan G., Seager, S., Latham, David W., Ricker, George R.,

Published Nov 2024
The Astronomical Journal, 2024 168 5
ArXiv: 2407.07187

Hartman, Joel D.  et al. Hartman, Joel D., Bayliss, Daniel, Brahm, Rafael, Bryant, Edward M., Jordán, Andrés, Bakos, Gáspár Á., Hobson, Melissa J., Sedaghati, Elyar, Bonfils, Xavier, Cointepas, Marion, Almenara, Jose Manuel, Barkaoui, Khalid, Timmermans, Mathilde, Dransfield, George, Ducrot, Elsa, Zúñiga-Fernández, Sebastián, Hooton, Matthew J., Pedersen, Peter Pihlmann, Pozuelos, Francisco J., Triaud, Amaury H. M. J., Gillon, Michaël, Jehin, Emmanuel, Waalkes, William C., Berta-Thompson, Zachory K., Howell, Steve B., Furlan, Elise, Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland, Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Rapetti, David, Collins, Karen A., Charbonneau, David, Burke, Christopher J., Rodriguez, David R.,

Published Nov 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024 534 3
ArXiv: 2409.08133

Ferellec, Lea  et al. Ferellec, Lea, Opitom, Cyrielle, Donaldson, Abbie, Fynbo, Johan P. U., Kokotanekova, Rosita, Kelley, Michael S. P., Lister, Tim,

Published Nov 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2024 691

Zeng, Xiangyun  et al. Zeng, Xiangyun, Li, Sai, Wang, Xiaofeng, Zheng, Sheng, Andrew Howell, D., Azaleee Bostroem, K., McCully, Curtis, Esamdin, Ali, Liu, Jialian, Iskandar, Abdusamatjan, Zhang, Jujia, Bird, Sarah A., Zhang, Tianmeng, Wang, Lifan, Li, Yangyang, Zhang, Junjie,

Published Oct 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024

Gomez, Sebastian  et al. Gomez, Sebastian, Nicholl, Matt, Berger, Edo, Blanchard, Peter K., Villar, V. Ashley, Rest, Sofia, Hosseinzadeh, Griffin, Aamer, Aysha, Ajay, Yukta, Athukoralalage, Wasundara, Coulter, David C., Eftekhari, Tarraneh, Fiore, Achille, Franz, Noah, Fox, Ori, Gagliano, Alexander, Hiramatsu, Daichi, Howell, D. Andrew, Hsu, Brian, Karmen, Mitchell, Siebert, Matthew R., Könyves-Tóth, Réka, Kumar, Harsh, McCully, Curtis, Pellegrino, Craig, Pierel, Justin, Rest, Armin, Wang, Qinan,