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A Global Robotic Telescope Network for Time-Domain Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

R. A. Street
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
T. A. Lister
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
Y. Tsapras
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary College, London E1 4NS, UK
A. Shporer
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
F. B. Bianco
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
B. J. Fulton
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
D. A. Howell
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
B. Dilday
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
M. Graham
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
D. Sand
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
J. Parent
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
T. Brown
Affiliation:
LCOGT, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA, email: rstreet@lcogt.net
K. Horne
Affiliation:
SUPA, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, UK
M. Dominik
Affiliation:
SUPA, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, UK
P. Browne
Affiliation:
SUPA, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, UK
C. Snodgrass
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
N. Kains
Affiliation:
ESO, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
D. Bramich
Affiliation:
ESO, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
N. Law
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H4, Canada
I. Steele
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Research Institute, LiverpoolJMU, Birkenhead, CH41 1LD, UK.
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Abstract

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Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) is currently building a new kind of general-purpose astronomical facility: a fully robotic network of telescopes of 2m, 1m and 0.4m apertures and homogeneous instrumentation. A pan-network approach to scheduling (rather than per individual telescope) offers redundancy in the event of poor weather or technical failure, as well as the ability to observe a target around the clock. Here we describe the network design and instrumentation under development, together with the main science programmes already being lead by LCOGT staff.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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