Monitoring LMXBs with the faulkes telescope
International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP (2006)
Abstract:
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.Astrophysics and space science: From X-ray binaries to quasars: Black holes on all mass scales
, 2005
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This volume brings together contributions from many of the world's leading authorities on black hole accretion. The papers within represent part of a new movement to make use of the relative advantages of studying stellar mass and supermassive black holes, and to bring together the knowledge gained from the two approaches. The topics discussed include observational and theoretical work-variability, spectroscopy, disk-jet connections, and multi-wavelength campaigns on black holes. © Springer 2005. All Rights Reserved.The Growth, Polarization, and Motion of the Radio Afterglow from the Giant Flare from SGR 1806–20
The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 634:1 (2005) l93-l96
Structure in the radio counterpart to the 2004 Dec 27 giant flare from SGR 1806-20
(2005)
A Unified Model for Black Hole X-Ray Binary Jets?
Astrophysics and Space Science Springer Nature 300:1-3 (2005) 1-13