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

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Pastorello A (2007) ESC and KAIT observations of the transitional Type Ia SN 2004eo in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Evans A. (2007) Spitzer and ground-based infrared observations of the 2006 eruption of RS ophiuchi in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

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Racusin JL (2008) Broadband observations of the naked-eye gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B. in Nature

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Gaudi BS (2008) Discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn analog with gravitational microlensing. in Science (New York, N.Y.)

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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

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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

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Pastorello A (2008) The Type IIb SN 2008ax: spectral and light curve evolution in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Chatterjee Ritaban (2008) CORRELATED MULTI-WAVE BAND VARIABILITY IN THE BLAZAR 3C 279 FROM 1996 TO 2007 in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

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Goicoechea L (2008) Structure function of the UV variability of Q0957+561 in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Gomboc A. (2008) MULTIWAVELENGTH ANALYSIS OF THE INTRIGUING GRB 061126: THE REVERSE SHOCK SCENARIO AND MAGNETIZATION 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.