Bibcode
Lewis, Fraser; Russell, D. M.; Fender, R. P.; Roche, P.
Referencia bibliográfica
Proceedings of the VI Microquasar Workshop: Microquasars and Beyond. September 18-22, 2006, Como, Italy., p.82.1
Fecha de publicación:
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2006
Número de citas
3
Número de citas referidas
2
Descripción
The Faulkes Telescope Project is the educational arm of the Las Cumbres
Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT). It currently has two
2-metre robotic telescopes, located at Haleakala on Maui (FT North) and
Siding Spring in Australia (FT South). It is planned to increase this to
six 2-metre telescopes in the future, complemented by a network of 30-40
smaller (0.4 - 1 metre) telescopes providing 24 hour coverage of both
northern and southern hemispheres. We are undertaking a monitoring
project of 10 low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) using FT North to study
the optical continuum behaviour of X-ray transients in quiescence. The
introduction of FT South in September 2006 allows us to extend this
monitoring to include 17 southern hemisphere LMXBs. With new
instrumentation, we also intend to expand this monitoring to include
both infrared wavelengths and spectroscopy.