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Excellence in Science

LCO's telescopes around the world, always ready in the dark, drive a unique and powerful engine supporting discoveries in Time Domain Astronomy.

The unique aspect of LCO 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 solar system objects and those which need to be observed for long periods in darkness like exoplanets.

LCO Science Groups

  Exoplanets
 Solar System
  Supernovae

Enhancing Community Science

  AEON
 TOM Toolkit
  Observatory Control System
  Astrophysics with LSST

Recent Publications

Publications Bibliometrics

Published Jun 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024 530 4
ArXiv: 2401.05490

Discovery and follow-up of ASASSN-23bd (AT 2023clx): the lowest redshift and luminosity optically selected tidal disruption event
Hoogendam, W. B.  et al. Hoogendam, W. B., Hinkle, J. T., Shappee, B. J., Auchettl, K., Kochanek, C. S., Stanek, K. Z., Maksym, W. P., Tucker, M. A., Huber, M. E., Morrell, N., Burns, C. R., Hey, D., Holoien, T. W. -S., Prieto, J. L., Stritzinger, M., Do, A., Polin, A., Ashall, C., Brown, P. J., DerKacy, J. M., Ferrari, L., Galbany, L., Hsiao, E. Y., Kumar, S., Lu, J., Stevens, C. P.,

Published Jun 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024 530 4

A low-mass helium star progenitor model for the Type Ibn SN 2020nxt
Wang, Qinan  et al. Wang, Qinan, Goel, Anika, Dessart, Luc, Fox, Ori D., Shahbandeh, Melissa, Rest, Sofia, Rest, Armin, Groh, Jose H., Allan, Andrew, Fransson, Claes, Smith, Nathan, Hosseinzadeh, Griffin, Filippenko, Alexei V., Andrews, Jennifer, Bostroem, K. Azalee, Brink, Thomas G., Brown, Peter, Burke, Jamison, Chevalier, Roger, Clayton, Geoffrey C., Dai, Mi, Davis, Kyle W., Foley, Ryan J., Gomez, Sebastian, Harris, Chelsea, Hiramatsu, Daichi, Howell, D. Andrew, Jennings, Connor, Jha, Saurabh W., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kelly, Patrick L., Kool, Erik C., Liu, Evelyn, Ma, Emily, McCully, Curtis, Miller, Adam M., Murakami, Yukei, Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla, Pellegrino, Craig, Perera, Derek, Pierel, Justin, Rojas-Bravo, César, Siebert, Matthew R., Sollerman, Jesper, Szalai, Tamás, Tinyanont, Samaporn, Van Dyk, Schuyler D., Zheng, WeiKang, Chambers, Kenneth C., Coulter, David A., de Boer, Thomas, Earl, Nicholas, Farias, Diego, Gall, Christa, McGill, Peter, Ransome, Conor L., Taggart, Kirsty, Villar, V. Ashley,

Published May 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024 530 1
ArXiv: 2402.09943

NGTS-28Ab: a short period transiting brown dwarf
Henderson, Beth A.  et al. Henderson, Beth A., Casewell, Sarah L., Goad, Michael R., Acton, Jack S., Günther, Maximilian N., Nielsen, Louise D., Burleigh, Matthew R., Belardi, Claudia, Tilbrook, Rosanna H., Turner, Oliver, Howell, Steve B., Clark, Catherine A., Littlefield, Colin, Barkaoui, Khalid, Alves, Douglas R., Anderson, David R., Bayliss, Daniel, Bouchy, Francois, Bryant, Edward M., Dransfield, George, Ducrot, Elsa, Eigmüller, Philipp, Gill, Samuel, Gillen, Edward, Gillon, Michaël, Hawthorn, Faith, Hooton, Matthew J., Jackman, James A. G., Jehin, Emmanuel, Jenkins, James S., Kendall, Alicia, Lendl, Monika, McCormac, James, Moyano, Maximiliano, Pedersen, Peter Pihlmann, Pozuelos, Francisco J., Ramsay, Gavin, Sefako, Ramotholo R., Timmermans, Mathilde, Triaud, Amaury H. M. J., Udry, Stephane, Vines, Jose I., Watson, Christopher A., West, Richard G., Wheatley, Peter J., Zúñiga-Fernández, Sebastián,

Published May 2024
Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024 20 1

Examining the mismatch between the intended astronomy curriculum content, astronomical literacy, and the astronomical universe
Salimpour, Saeed  et al. Salimpour, Saeed, Fitzgerald, Michael, Hollow, Robert,

Published Apr 2024
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2024 41
ArXiv: 2311.00688

VaTEST III: Validation of eight potential super-earths from TESS data
Mistry, Priyashkumar  et al. Mistry, Priyashkumar, Prasad, Aniket, Maity, Mousam, Pathak, Kamlesh, Gharat, Sarvesh, Lekkas, Georgios, Bhattarai, Surendra, Kumar, Dhruv, Lissauer, Jack J., Twicken, Joseph D., Soubkiou, Abderahmane, Pozuelos, Francisco J., Jenkins, Jon, Horne, Keith, Giacalone, Steven, Barkaoui, Khalid, Timmermans, Mathilde, Watkins, Cristilyn N., Sefako, Ramotholo, Collins, Karen A., Ciardi, David R., Clark, Catherine A., Safonov, Boris S., Shporer, Avi, Schlieder, Joshua E., Benkhaldoun, Zouhair, Stockdale, Chris, Ziegler, Carl, Gilbert, Emily A., Emmanuël, Jehin, Murgas, Felipe, Crossfield, Ian J. M., Paegert, Martin, Lund, Michael B., Narita, Norio, Schwarz, Richard P., Goeke, Robert F., Fajardo-Acosta, Sergio B., Howell, Steve B., Tan, Thiam-Guan, Barclay, Thomas, Kawai, Yugo,