Supernova Photometry with the LCOGT Faulkes Telescopes

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May 2011

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #132.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) is currently designing, constructing, and deploying a network of robotic telescopes which will consist of multiple 1m and 0.4m telescopes, positioned at sites distributed roughly equi-longitudinally around the globe. When completed, the network will enable unique opportunities for time-domain astronomy. The LCOGT network also includes the 2m Faulkes Telescopes (FTs); Faulkes North (Haleakala, Maui) and Faulkes South (Siding Springs, Australia). As a precursor to the full telescope network, LCOGT is operating the Faulkes Telescopes in a robotic observing mode, and one primary use of the FTs over the last two years has been to provide multi-color photometric follow-up of supernovae (SNe) discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). We discuss the current status of FT photometry for SNe from PTF, including the photometric reduction pipeline, data-quality statistics, and photometric calibrations.

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