Long-Term Monitoring of Throughput in Las Cumbres Observatory's Fleet of Telescopes

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Daniel-Rolf Harbeck, McCully, Curtis, Pickles, Andrew, Volgenau, Nikolaus, Conway, Patrick, Taylor, Brook
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 30.05.2018
• Subjects: Aluminizing; Apertures; Astronomical instruments; Data points; Hemispheres; Image filters; Monitoring; Observatories; Photometry; Schedules; Telescopes

The Las Cumbres Observatory operates a fleet of robotically controlled telescopes currently two 2m, nine 1m, and ten 0.4m telescopes, distributed amongst six sites covering both hemispheres. Telescopes of an aperture class are equipped with an identical set of optical imagers, and those data are sub...