RoboNet-II: Follow-up observations of microlensing events with a robotic network of telescopes

Y. Tsapras; R. Street; K. Horne; C. Snodgrass; Martin Dominik; A. Allan; I. Steele; D. M. Bramich; E. S. Saunders; N. Rattenbury; C. Mottram; S. Fraser; N. Clay; M. Burgdorf; M. Bode; T. A. Lister; E. Hawkins; J. P. Beaulieu; P. Fouque; M. Albrow; J. Menzies; A. Cassan; D. Dominis-Prester

doi:10.1002/asna.200811130

RoboNet-II: Follow-up observations of microlensing events with a robotic network of telescopes

Y. Tsapras, R. Street, K. Horne, C. Snodgrass, Martin Dominik, A. Allan, I. Steele, D. M. Bramich, E. S. Saunders, N. Rattenbury, C. Mottram, S. Fraser, N. Clay, M. Burgdorf, M. Bode, T. A. Lister, E. Hawkins, J. P. Beaulieu, P. Fouque, M. AlbrowJ. Menzies, A. Cassan, D. Dominis-Prester

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RoboNet-II uses a global network of robotic telescopes to perform follow-up observations of microlensing events ill the Galactic Bulge. The Current network consists of three 2m telescopes located in Hawaii and Australia (owned by Las Cumbres Observatory) and the Canary Islands (owned by Liverpool John Moores University). In future years the network will be expanded by deploying clusters of I m telescopes in other Suitable locations. A principal scientific aim of the RoboNet-II project is the detection of cool extra-solar planets by the method of gravitational microlensing. These detections will provide crucial constraints to models of planetary formation and orbital migration. RoboNet-II acts in coordination with the PLANET microlensing follow-up network and uses all optimization algorithm ("web-PLOP") to select the targets and a distributed scheduling paradigm (eSTAR) to execute the observations. Continuous automated assessment of the observations and anomaly detection is provided by the ARTEMiS system. (C) 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	411
Number of pages	8
Journal	Astronomische Nachrichten
Volume	330
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.200811130
Publication status	Published - Jan 2009

Keywords

planetary systems
techniques: photometric
telescopes
LIVERPOOL-TELESCOPE
EXTRASOLAR PLANETS
EARTH MASS
PERFORMANCE
EXOPLANETS
SUPERWASP
DISCOVERY
CATALOG
SYSTEMS
AGENT

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Tsapras, Y., Street, R., Horne, K., Snodgrass, C., Dominik, M., Allan, A., Steele, I., Bramich, D. M., Saunders, E. S., Rattenbury, N., Mottram, C., Fraser, S., Clay, N., Burgdorf, M., Bode, M., Lister, T. A., Hawkins, E., Beaulieu, J. P., Fouque, P., ... Dominis-Prester, D. (2009). RoboNet-II: Follow-up observations of microlensing events with a robotic network of telescopes. Astronomische Nachrichten, 330(1), 411. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.200811130

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RoboNet-II: Follow-up observations of microlensing events with a robotic network of telescopes

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