Continued Monitoring of LMXBs with the Faulkes Telescopes

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dc.creatorLewis, Fraser
dc.creatorRussell, David M.
dc.creatorFender, Rob P.
dc.creatorRoche, Paul
dc.creatorClark, J. Simon
dc.date2008-11-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:18:25Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:18:25Z
dc.descriptionThe Faulkes Telescope Project is an educational and research arm of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN). It has two 2-metre robotic telescopes, located at Haleakala on Maui (FT North) and Siding Spring in Australia (FT South). It is planned for these telescopes to be complemented by a research network of eighteen 1-metre telescopes, along with an educational network of twenty-eight 0.4-metre telescopes, providing 24 hour coverage of both northern and southern hemispheres. We have been conducting a monitoring project of 13 low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) using FT North since early 2006. The introduction of FT South has allowed us to extend this to monitor a total of 30 LMXBs. New instrumentation will allow us to expand this project to include both infrared wavelengths (z and y band) and spectroscopy. Brighter targets (~ 16 - 18 mag.) are imaged weekly in V, R and i' band (SNR ~ 50), while fainter ones (> 18 mag.) are observed only in i' band (SNR ~ 20). We alter this cadence in response to our own analysis or Astronomers Telegrams (ATels).
dc.description5 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings from 'VII Microquasar Workshop: Microquasars and Beyond, held at Foca, Turkey, September 1st - 5th, 2008
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0811.2336
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0811.2336
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/174182
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleContinued Monitoring of LMXBs with the Faulkes Telescopes
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