Recent Science Highlights from the Robotic Liverpool Telescope

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Mar 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008aas...21116015s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #160.15

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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The Liverpool Telescope is a fully-robotic 2-metre astronomical telescope owned and operated on La Palma by the Astrophysics Research Institute of Liverpool John Moores University (UK) with the financial support of the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). A range of instruments are permanently mounted at the Cassegrain focus providing optical imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetry and near-IR imaging with instrument changes in less than one minute. Though a very broad range of observational projects run on the telescope, the instrumentation and infrastructure have been designed specifically to exploit the robotic observatory's fully automated capabilities by focusing on the demands of time-domain astrophysics. Targets may be monitored on any time scale from hours to months and rapid response observations made in response to events such as GRBs, novae and supernovae or newly discovered solar system objects.
In this poster we present a few recent highlights from the range of greater than 40 observational programs running now or over the past year, many of which are specifically enabled by the robotic nature of the telescope. In the case of results that have not been already published in refereed journals, the authors have kindly given permission for the inclusion of their data in this paper.
* An exceptionally early measurement of GRB optical polarization, only 203 seconds after the burst itself (Mundell et al., 2007, Science, 315, 1822)
* The first detection of the YORP effect in an asteroid's spin period (Lowry et al., 2007, Science, 316, 272)
* Milli-magnitude photometry of several extra-solar planetary transits (Pollaco et al, in prep.).
For more details of the telescope and the time allocation procedures please see http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/

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