Monitoring LMXBs with the Faulkes Telescope

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dc.creatorLewis, Fraser
dc.creatorRussell, David M.
dc.creatorFender, Rob P.
dc.creatorRoche, Paul
dc.date2006-11-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:24:08Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:24:08Z
dc.descriptionThe 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 study 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.
dc.description5 pages, 4 figures, will appear in the proceedings of the Sixth Microquasar workshop: Microquasars and Beyond, 18-22 September 2006 in Como, Italy (eds: T. Belloni et al. 2006)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611111
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611111
dc.identifierPoSMQW6:082,2006
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/176081
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleMonitoring LMXBs with the Faulkes Telescope
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