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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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

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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

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

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Russell D (2006) Global optical/infrared???X-ray correlations in X-ray binaries: quantifying disc and jet contributions in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Schwarz G. J. (2007) The early spectrophotometric evolution of V1186 Scorpii (nova Scorpii 2004 no. 1) in ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

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Shalyapin V (2008) New two-colour light curves of Q0957+561: time delays and the origin of intrinsic variations in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Southworth J (2006) VLT/FORS spectroscopy of faint cataclysmic variables discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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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.