Authors
TM Brown, N Baliber, FB Bianco, M Bowman, B Burleson, P Conway, M Crellin, É Depagne, J De Vera, B Dilday, D Dragomir, M Dubberley, JD Eastman, M Elphick, M Falarski, S Foale, M Ford, BJ Fulton, J Garza, EL Gomez, M Graham, R Greene, B Haldeman, E Hawkins, B Haworth, R Haynes, M Hidas, AE Hjelstrom, DA Howell, J Hygelund, TA Lister, R Lobdill, J Martinez, DS Mullins, M Norbury, J Parrent, R Paulson, DL Petry, A Pickles, V Posner, WE Rosing, R Ross, DJ Sand, ES Saunders, J Shobbrook, A Shporer, RA Street, D Thomas, Y Tsapras, JR Tufts, S Valenti, K Vander Horst, Z Walker, G White, M Willis
Publication date
2013/9/1
Journal
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Volume
125
Issue
931
Pages
1031-1055
Publisher
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Description
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) is a young organization dedicated to time-domain observations at optical and (potentially) near-IR wavelengths. To this end, LCOGT is constructing a worldwide network of telescopes, including the two 2 m Faulkes telescopes, as many as 17 × 1 m telescopes, and as many as 23 × 40 cm telescopes. These telescopes initially will be outfitted for imaging and (excepting the 40 cm telescopes) spectroscopy at wavelengths between the atmospheric UV cutoff and the roughly 1-μm limit of silicon detectors. Since the first of LCOGT’s 1 m telescopes are now being deployed, we lay out here LCOGT’s scientific goals and the requirements that these goals place on network architecture and performance, we summarize the network’s present and projected level of …
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