Robotic Follow-up of Microlensing Events

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21443412s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #434.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.706

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Several hundred galactic microlensing events are now routinely discovered every year, of which a few exhibit anomalous behavior due to the presence of an exoplanet orbiting the lensing body. Ground based follow-up of these events requires a co-ordinated observing program using network of telescopes observing around the clock.
The RoboNet microlensing project is taking advantage of the robotic scheduling capabilities of LCOGT and the Liverpool Telescope to provide responsive photometric follow-up of carefully selected events.
Currently LCOGT has two, 2m telescopes available via our network and are in the process of building and deploying networks of 1m and 0.4m telescopes. Once online, these facilities will provide 24hr coverage of microlensing events. Here we highlight results from the RoboNet Project to date and describe the software we have developed to optimize our response to planetary events.

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