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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 Mar 2023
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 165 3
ArXiv: 2208.10854

Heitzmann, Alexis  et al. Heitzmann, Alexis, Zhou, George, Quinn, Samuel N., Huang, Chelsea X., Dong, Jiayin, Bouma, L. G., Dawson, Rebekah I., Marsden, Stephen C., Wright, Duncan, Petit, Pascal, Collins, Karen A., Barkaoui, Khalid, Wittenmyer, Robert A., Gillen, Edward, Brahm, Rafael, Hobson, Melissa, Hellier, Coel, Ziegler, Carl, Briceño, César, Law, Nicholas, Mann, Andrew W., Howell, Steve B., Gnilka, Crystal L., Littlefield, Colin, Latham, David W., Lissauer, Jack J., Newton, Elisabeth R., Krolikowski, Daniel M., Kerr, Ronan, Rampalli, Rayna, Douglas, Stephanie T., Eisner, Nora L., Guedj, Nathalie, Sun, Guoyou, Smit, Martin, Huten, Marc, Eschweiler, Thorsten, Abe, Lyu, Guillot, Tristan, Ricker, George, Vanderspek, Roland, Seager, Sara, Jenkins, Jon M., Ting, Eric B., Winn, Joshua N., Ciardi, David R., Vanderburg, Andrew M., Burke, Christopher J., Rodriguez, David R., Daylan, Tansu,

Published Mar 2023
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023 265 1
ArXiv: 2210.15473

Yee, Samuel W.  et al. Yee, Samuel W., Winn, Joshua N., Hartman, Joel D., Bouma, Luke G., Zhou, George, Quinn, Samuel N., Latham, David W., Bieryla, Allyson, Rodriguez, Joseph E., Collins, Karen A., Alfaro, Owen, Barkaoui, Khalid, Beard, Corey, Belinski, Alexander A., Benkhaldoun, Zouhair, Benni, Paul, Bernacki, Krzysztof, Boyle, Andrew W., Butler, R. Paul, Caldwell, Douglas A., Chontos, Ashley, Christiansen, Jessie L., Ciardi, David R., Collins, Kevin I., Conti, Dennis M., Crane, Jeffrey D., Daylan, Tansu, Dressing, Courtney D., Eastman, Jason D., Essack, Zahra, Evans, Phil, Everett, Mark E., Fajardo-Acosta, Sergio, Forés-Toribio, Raquel, Furlan, Elise, Ghachoui, Mourad, Gillon, Michaël, Hellier, Coel, Helm, Ian, Howard, Andrew W., Howell, Steve B., Isaacson, Howard, Jehin, Emmanuel, Jenkins, Jon M., Jensen, Eric L. N., Kielkopf, John F., Laloum, Didier, Leonhardes-Barboza, Naunet, Lewin, Pablo, Logsdon, Sarah E., Lubin, Jack, Lund, Michael B., MacDougall, Mason G., Mann, Andrew W., Maslennikova, Natalia A., Massey, Bob, McLeod, Kim K., Muñoz, Jose A., Newman, Patrick, Orlov, Valeri, Plavchan, Peter, Popowicz, Adam, Pozuelos, Francisco J., Pritchard, Tyler A., Radford, Don J., Reefe, Michael, Ricker, George R., Rudat, Alexander, Safonov, Boris S., Schwarz, Richard P., Schweiker, Heidi, Scott, Nicholas J., Seager, S., Shectman, Stephen A., Stockdale, Chris, Tan, Thiam-Guan, Teske, Johanna K., Thomas, Neil B., Timmermans, Mathilde, Vanderspek, Roland, Vermilion, David, Watanabe, David, Weiss, Lauren M., West, Richard G., Van Zandt, Judah, Zejmo, Michal, Ziegler, Carl,

Published Mar 2023
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 519 3
ArXiv: 2211.09202

Graham, Melissa L.  et al. Graham, Melissa L., Knop, Robert A., Kennedy, Thomas D., Nugent, Peter E., Bellm, Eric, Catelan, Márcio, Patel, Avi, Smotherman, Hayden, Soraisam, Monika, Stetzler, Steven, Aldoroty, Lauren N., Awbrey, Autumn, Baeza-Villagra, Karina, Bernardinelli, Pedro H., Bianco, Federica, Brout, Dillon, Clarke, Riley, Clarkson, William I., Collett, Thomas, Davenport, James R. A., Fu, Shenming, Gizis, John E., Heinze, Ari, Hu, Lei, Jha, Saurabh W., Jurić, Mario, Kalmbach, J. Bryce, Kim, Alex, Lee, Chien-Hsiu, Lidman, Chris, Magee, Mark, Martínez-Vázquez, Clara E., Matheson, Thomas, Narayan, Gautham, Palmese, Antonella, Phillips, Christopher A., Rabus, Markus, Rest, Armin, Rodríguez-Segovia, Nicolás, Street, Rachel, Vivas, A. Katherina, Wang, Lifan, Wolf, Nicholas, Yang, Jiawen,

Published Mar 2023
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 165 3
ArXiv: 2212.03266

Wood, Mackenna L.  et al. Wood, Mackenna L., Mann, Andrew W., Barber, Madyson G., Bush, Jonathan L., Kraus, Adam L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Vanderburg, Andrew, Newton, Elisabeth R., Feiden, Gregory A., Zhou, George, Bouma, Luke G., Quinn, Samuel N., Armstrong, David J., Osborn, Ares, Adibekyan, Vardan, Mena, Elisa Delgado, Sousa, Sergio G., Gagné, Jonathan, Fields, Matthew J., Milburn, Reilly P., Thao, Pa Chia, Schmidt, Stephen P., Gnilka, Crystal L., Howell, Steve B., Law, Nicholas M., Ziegler, Carl, Briceño, César, Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland, Latham, David W., Seager, Sara, Winn, Joshua N., Jenkins, Jon M., Schlieder, Joshua E., Osborn, Hugh P., Twicken, Joseph D., Ciardi, David R., Huang, Chelsea X.,

Published Mar 2023
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 165 3
ArXiv: 2301.01370

Tey, Evan  et al. Tey, Evan, Huang, Chelsea X., Kunimoto, Michelle, Vanderburg, Andrew, Shporer, Avi, Quinn, Samuel N., Zhou, George, Collins, Karen A., Collins, Kevin I., Jensen, Eric L. N., Schwarz, Richard P., Sefako, Ramotholo, Gan, Tianjun, Furlan, Elise, Gnilka, Crystal L., Howell, Steve B., Lester, Kathryn V., Ziegler, Carl, Briceño, César, Law, Nicholas, Mann, Andrew W., Ricker, George R., Vanderspek, Roland K., Latham, David W., Seager, S., Jenkins, Jon M., Winn, Joshua N., Caldwell, Douglas A., Charbonneau, David, Burke, Christopher J., Essack, Zahra,