T. M. Brown, N. Baliber, F. B. Bianco, M. Bowman, B. Burleson, P. Conway, M. Crellin, É. Depagne, J. De Vera, B. Dilday, D. Dragomir, M. Dubberley, J. D. Eastma… 展开作者
T. M. Brown, N. Baliber, F. B. Bianco, M. Bowman, B. Burleson, P. Conway, M. Crellin, É. Depagne, J. De Vera, B. Dilday, D. Dragomir, M. Dubberley, J. D. Eastman, M. Elphick, M. Falarski, S. Foale, M. Ford, B. J. Fulton, J. Garza, E. L. Gomez, M. Graham, R. Greene, B. Haldeman, E. Hawkins, B. Haworth, R. Haynes, M. Hidas, A. E. Hjelstrom, D. A. Howell, J. Hygelund, T. A. Lister, R. Lobdill, J. Martinez, D. S. Mullins, M. Norbury, J. Parrent, R. Paulson, D. L. Petry, A. Pickles, V. Posner, W. E. Rosing, R. Ross, D. J. Sand, E. S. Saunders, J. Shobbrook, A. Shporer, R. A. Street, D. Thomas, Y. Tsapras, J. R. Tufts, S. Valenti, K. Vander Horst, Z. Walker, G. White, M. Willis
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59 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables. AAS Latex v5.2. Accepted for publication in Pub. Astr. Soc. Pacific
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 world-wide network of telescopes, including the two 2m Faulkes telescopes, as many as 17 x 1m telescopes, and as many as 23 x 40cm telescopes. These telescopes initially will be outfitted for imaging and (excepting the 40cm telescopes) spectroscopy at wavelengths between the atmospheric UV cutoff and the roughly 1-micron limit of silicon detectors. Since the first of LCOGT's 1m 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 development, and we describe our expected schedule for completing it. In the bulk of the paper, we describe in detail the technical approaches that we have adopted to attain the desired performance. In particular, we discuss our choices for the number and location of network sites, for the number and sizes of telescopes, for the specifications of the first generation of instruments, for the software that will schedule and control the network's telescopes and reduce and archive its data, and for the structure of the scientific and educational programs for which the network will provide observations.
Long-Term Monitoring of Throughput in Las Cumbres Observatory's Fleet of Telescopes
拉斯坎布雷斯天文台拥有一支由机器人控制的望远镜队，目前有两台2米，九台1米和十台0.4米望远镜，分布在覆盖两个半球的六个地点。同一孔径级别的望远镜都配备了一套相同的光学成像仪，这些数据随后由一个共同的管道（BANZAI）处理。这些望远镜的运行没有人的直接监督，评估这些望远镜和仪器的日常和长期科学生产力是一项业务挑战。望远镜/仪器系统的一个关键操作指标是吞吐量。我们提出了一种基于夜间科学观测的长期性能监测方法：对于在匹配滤波器中拍摄的每张图像和PANSTARRS DR 1目录的足迹内，我们获得了光度零点，这是系统吞吐量的良好代理。这个超过$250000$数据点的数据集使我们能够回答有关一般吞吐量下降趋势的问题，以及各个望远镜在各个站点的表现如何。这一特定的度量标准有助于规划现场支持的工作水平，并分别优先考虑望远镜光学系统和反射镜的清洁和重新镀铝时间表。
Las Cumbres Observatory Gravitational-Wave Follow-up in the Third and Fourth Observing Runs: Strengths and Weaknesses of a Rapid Response Galaxy Targeted Strategy
Tel Aviv University（特拉维夫大学）；Las Cumbres Observatory（拉斯坎伯斯天文台）；University of California, Santa Barbara（加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校）；Goddard Space Flight Center（戈达德太空飞行中心）；Weizmann Institute of Science（魏茨曼科学研究所）；Shady Side Academy（阴影边学院）；University of Florida（佛罗里达大学）；Center for Astrophysics — Harvard & Smithsonian（天体物理中心——哈佛大学与史密森尼学会）
Laser-based metrology systems vs wavefront sensing techniques: a comparative overview between the Large Binocular Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory for the telescope alignment and collimation tracking
INAF Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio（意大利国家天体物理研究所空间天体物理与科学观测站）；Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Office（薇拉·C·鲁宾天文台项目办公室）；California Institute of Technology（加州理工学院）；Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona（亚利桑那大学怀安特光学科学学院）；Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, University of Arizona（亚利桑那大学大双筒望远镜天文台）；DIRAC Institute, University of Washington（华盛顿大学迪拉克研究所）；Department of Astronomy, University of Washington（华盛顿大学天文学系）；Department of Physics, Duke University（杜克大学物理学系）；Observatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri（阿尔切特里天体物理观测站）；Vera C. Rubin Observatory（薇拉·C·鲁宾天文台）；Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University（普林斯顿大学天体物理科学系）；INAF OATS（意大利国家天体物理研究所的奥阿斯特天文台）；INAF IASF（意大利国家天体物理研究所的星际介质和天体物理学研究所）；Department of Physics “E. Pancini”, University Federico II of Napoli（那不勒斯费德里科二世大学“E.潘奇尼”物理学系）；Harvard Physics Department（哈佛大学物理学系）；Vera C Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab（薇拉·C·鲁宾天文台/美国国家光学红外天文实验室）；Department of Physics, Stanford University（斯坦福大学物理学系）；SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory（斯坦福直线加速器中心）
Short story of stratospheric and ground-based observations of solar photosphere with high angular resolution in the 70s of the XX century at the Pulkovo Observatory
Atmospheric extinction coefficients in the $\mathrm{I_c}$ band for several major international observatories: Results from the BiSON telescopes, 1984 to 2016
