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
Oates S
(2006)
Anatomy of a dark burst - the afterglow of GRB 060108
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
Racusin JL
(2008)
Broadband observations of the naked-eye gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B.
in Nature
Pastorello A
(2007)
A giant outburst two years before the core-collapse of a massive star.
in Nature
Goicoechea L
(2008)
First robotic monitoring of a lensed quasar: Intrinsic variability of SBS 0909+532
in New Astronomy
Gomboc A.
(2006)
A review of early-time optical follow-ups with 2 m robotic telescopes
in NUOVO CIMENTO DELLA SOCIETA ITALIANA DI FISICA B-BASIC TOPICS IN PHYSICS
Guidorzi C
(2006)
The automatic real-time gamma-ray burst pipeline of the 2 m Liverpool Telescope
in PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
Gaudi BS
(2008)
Discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn analog with gravitational microlensing.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Mundell CG
(2007)
Early optical polarization of a gamma-ray burst afterglow.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Lowry SC
(2007)
Direct detection of the asteroidal YORP effect.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
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. |