Science

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

• Delivery of organics to Mars through asteroid and comet impacts

  Published Jul 2018: 2018Icar..309..125F
  Frantseva, Kateryna, Mueller, Michael, ten Kate, Inge Loes, van der Tak, Floris F. S., Greenstreet, Sarah

• Long-Term Monitoring of Throughput in Las Cumbres Observatory's Fleet of Telescopes

  Published Jul 2018: 2018SPIE10704E..01H
  Harbeck, Daniel-Rolf, McCully, Curtis, Pickles, Andrew, Volgenau, Nikolaus, Conway, Patrick, Taylor, Brook

• The abstract observatory: an interface for networking telescopes

  Published Jul 2018: 2018SPIE10704E..0ZS
  Saunders, E. S., Bowman, M., Boroson, T., Street, R. A.

• The SOAR Telescope as a node in a time domain followup-network: concepts and plans

  Published Jul 2018: 2018SPIE10704E..0BE
  Elias, Jonathan H., Briceno, Cesar, Boroson, Todd, Bowman, Mark K., Cantarutti, Rolando, Miller, Bryan, Ridgway, Stephen, Saunders, Eric, Street, Rachel A.

• UV, X-ray, and Optical Variability of the Young Star T Cha Produced by Inner Disk Obscuration: Results from a Coordinated HST, XMM-Newton, LCOGT, and SMARTS Observing Campaign

  Published Jun 2018: 2018AAS...23221909B
  Brown, Alexander, France, Kevin, Walter, Frederick M., Schneider, P. Christian, Brown, Timothy M., Andrews, Sean M., Wilner, David J.