Liverpool Telescope Operational Phase
Lead Research Organisation:
Liverpool John Moores University
Department Name: Astrophysics Research Institute
Abstract
The Liverpool Telescope is the world's largest robotic telescope. As a robotic telescope, it operates on its own every night, carrying out a queue of observations defined by a wide community of astronomers. Robotic telescopes are particularly suitable for making repeated sequences of observations of time variable sources (monitoring), or for rapid response to objects which last only a short time, such as Novae, Supernovae and Gamma Ray Burst sources. This application is for continuation of funding for the maintenance and operation of the Liverpool Telescope, both in its role as a national facility and also as the primary component of RoboNet.
Publications
Mundell CG
(2007)
Early optical polarization of a gamma-ray burst afterglow.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Pastorello A
(2007)
A giant outburst two years before the core-collapse of a massive star.
in Nature
Larionov V
(2008)
Results of WEBT, VLBA and RXTE monitoring of 3C 279 during 2006-2007
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Goicoechea L
(2008)
First robotic monitoring of a lensed quasar: Intrinsic variability of SBS 0909+532
in New Astronomy
Dillon M
(2008)
Orbital periods of cataclysmic variables identified by the SDSS - III. Time-series photometry obtained during the 2004/5 International Time Project on La Palma
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pastorello A
(2008)
Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium - II. The transitional case of SN 2005la
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pastorello A
(2008)
The Type IIb SN 2008ax: spectral and light curve evolution
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Racusin JL
(2008)
Broadband observations of the naked-eye gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B.
in Nature
Taubenberger S
(2008)
The underluminous Type Ia supernova 2005bl and the class of objects similar to SN 1991bg? SN 2005bl
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Torres M. A. P.
(2008)
Observations of the 599 Hz accreting X-ray pulsar IGR J00291+5934 during the 2004 outburst and in quiescence
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
| Title | Robotic Control Software |
| Description | software developed to run the liverpool telescope in an autonomous fashion was licensed under GPL and released to Las Cumbres Observatory in return for 1200 hours guarenteed time on their telesopes. |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Copyrighted (e.g. software) |
| Year Protection Granted | 2007 |
| Licensed | Yes |
| Impact | The robotic software is of course key to the whole operation of the telescope- without it the majority of the scientific papers produced would not have been possible. |