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Liverpool Telescope Operations 2023-2026

利物浦望远镜运行 2023-2026

基本信息

批准号：
ST/X005933/1
负责人：
Christopher Copperwheat
金额：
$ 132.44万
依托单位：
Liverpool John Moores University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FX005933%2F1
关键词：
Liverpool Telescope Operations 2023 2026

项目摘要

The Liverpool Telescope (LT ) (https://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/) is the world's largest and most sophisticated robotic telescope (in terms of range of science programmes, flexibility of scheduling, and sophistication of instrumentation) with a dual role to carry out internationally competitive research and deliver the key observing resource to the National Schools Observatory. The NSO offers school children near-immediate access to a world-class observatory. Since its launch in 2004, this has led to over 200,000 observing requests from over 4,000 schools. The NSO currently works with over 4,000 teachers throughout the UK and Ireland. At the core of the NSO is the website which provides support material for a range of subjects and receives over 3 million hits each year. Since operations began in 2004, LT has specialised in delivering high impact results in time domain astrophysics. Indeed, the observatory is unique in actively encouraging rapid-response and difficult-to-schedule monitoring projects from the U.K. and Spanish communities. Refereed publications that include LT data typically average 66 citations/paper, four times the average for all astronomy papers; to date 27 such papers have appeared in the high-profile journals Nature or Science, these having on average 222 citations/paper. The telescope has high impact science programmes in five key areas of time domain astrophysics:* Spectroscopic and photometric classification and monitoring of transients (Supernovae, Novae, Cataclysmic Variables...) from wide field optical surveys.* Immediate response to Gamma Ray Burst events detected by Swift and Fermi.* Rapid follow-up of candidate optical counterparts to multimessenger detections.* Long term monitoring of time variable phenomena, such as active galactic nuclei.* Time resolved characterisation of variable stars, binaries, transiting exoplanets and Solar System objects. From the outset, the goal has been to provide a wide variety of instrumentation to cater for the broad interests of the LJMU and U.K./Spanish communities. Currently, optical photometry, spectroscopy and polarimetry are offered with instruments and a software environment that are capable of sampling timescales from <1 second to >10 years. A continuous programme of instrument upgrades has been aggressively pursued throughout the last decade. This has kept the facility competitive and ensures its position at the forefront of time domain astronomy for at least the next three years, after which we plan to transition to a joint operations model with the 4m New Robotic Telescope. This application is for an STFC contribution over the period 2023-2026 to the funding for the maintenance and operation of the Liverpool Telescope, and hence the continuation of its role as a major resource both for the LJMU Astrophysics Research Institute and the wider UK community.

利物浦望远镜（LT）（https：//telescope.livjm.ac.uk/）是世界上最大和最先进的机器人望远镜（就科学方案的范围、时间安排的灵活性和仪器的复杂性而言），具有开展国际竞争性研究和向国家学校天文台提供关键观测资源的双重作用。国家统计局为学生提供了接近世界级天文台的机会。自2004年启动以来，已收到来自4 000多所学校的20多万份观察请求。国家统计局目前与联合王国和爱尔兰的4 000多名教师合作。国家统计局的核心是一个网站，该网站为一系列主题提供支助材料，每年的点击量超过300万次。自2004年开始运营以来，LT一直专注于提供时域天体物理学的高影响力结果。事实上，天文台在积极鼓励英国快速响应和难以安排的监测项目方面是独一无二的。西班牙社区。包括LT数据的参考出版物通常平均66次引用/论文，是所有天文学论文平均值的四倍;迄今为止，有27篇此类论文出现在知名期刊《自然》或《科学》上，平均222次引用/论文。该望远镜在时域天体物理学的五个关键领域具有高影响力的科学方案：* 光谱和光度分类和瞬变监测（超新星，新星，灾变变量.）大视场光学测量 *对斯威夫特和费米探测到的伽马射线暴事件的即时反应。对多信使探测的候选光学对应物进行快速跟踪。长期监测时变现象，如活动星系核。变星、双星、凌日系外行星和太阳系天体的时间分辨特性。从一开始，我们的目标就是提供各种各样的仪器，以满足LJMU和英国的广泛利益。西班牙社区目前，光学光度测定法、光谱学和旋光测定法提供了能够从10年的时间尺度采样的仪器和软件环境<1 second to >。在过去十年中，一直在积极实施仪器升级的持续方案。这使该设施保持了竞争力，并确保其至少在未来三年内处于时域天文学的最前沿，之后我们计划过渡到与4米新机器人望远镜的联合运营模式。该申请是为了在2023-2026年期间为利物浦望远镜的维护和运行提供资金，从而继续发挥其作为LJMU天体物理研究所和更广泛的英国社区的主要资源的作用。