Science

The unique aspect of LCOGT science is having a global network of telescopes at our disposal. The areas of astronomy most interesting to us are those which take full advantage of this sort of network; targets which appear suddenly and without warning like supernovae and gamma-ray bursts; objects which need to be observed for long periods in darkness like exoplanets and binary star systems.  Click here to see our research team.

Supernovae

More about our research into supernovae.

Exoplanets

More about our research in transiting and microlensing exoplanets

Latest Publications

12 Dec 2011 Kepler-22b: A 2.4 Earth-radius Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sun-like Star
Borucki et al. 2011, ApJ, in press (arXiv:1112.1640)
26 Nov 2011 Detection of KOI-13.01 Using the Photometric Orbit
Shporer et al. 2011, AJ, 142, 195
22 Nov 2011 Planck Early Results: The Planck mission
Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics on 31 May 2011
17 Nov 2011 A Search for Pulsations in Helium White Dwarfs
Accepted to PASP, 2011-11-17
17 Nov 2011 All-Sky Spectrally Matched UBVRI-ZY and u'g'r'i'z' Magnitudes for Stars in the Tycho2 Catalog
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PASP..122.1437P
10 Nov 2011 Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet
Doyle et al. 2011, Science, 333, 1602
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