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
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)
Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium - I. Type Ibn (SN 2006jc-like) events
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pastorello A
(2007)
ESC and KAIT observations of the transitional Type Ia SN 2004eo
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Pandey S
(2006)
Multi-wavelength afterglow observations of the high redshift GRB 050730
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Oates S
(2006)
Anatomy of a dark burst - the afterglow of GRB 060108
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Mundell CG
(2007)
Early optical polarization of a gamma-ray burst afterglow.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Monfardini A.
(2006)
High-quality early-time light curves of GRB 060206: Implications for gamma-ray burst environments and energetics
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Melandri A.
(2008)
THE EARLY-TIME OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF GAMMA-RAY BURST AFTERGLOWS
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Mazzali PA
(2008)
The metamorphosis of supernova SN 2008D/XRF 080109: a link between supernovae and GRBs/hypernovae.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Lynch DK
(2006)
Early infrared spectral development of V1187 scorpii (Nova Scorpii 2004 No. 2)
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. |