Tag Archives: Research

Join researchers hunting outbursting young stars!

Posted on 01/09/2021 by Sarah Roberts

The Faulkes Telescope Project is pleased to announce that we are collaborating with the HOYS citizen science project which aims to use the LCO telescopes to study young star and planet forming regions. HOYS was a successful LCO Global Sky …

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Threats from the Cosmos

Posted on 02/07/2021 by Sophie Bartlett

By Mika Wawerzonnek Mika Wawerzonnek, A 17-year-old 11th grade student studying at Ratsgymnasium Münster in Germany has been using the telescope network to complete his term paper (German: “Facharbeit”). The title of Mika’s paper translates to “Identification, Confirmation and Trajectory …

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Teachers involved in the discovery of a comet

Posted on 02/10/2020 by Paul Roche

C/2020 S4 (PANSTARRS) is the scientific name of a newly discovered comet, which teachers were able to confirm during their teacher training workshop at the Pascal Gymnasium Münster, Germany.

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Swift J1753.5-0127

Posted on 15/01/2019 by Matthew Allen

Read ATels #9708, #9739, #10075, #10097, #10288, #10325, #10562. Our publications are “A 420-day X-ray/optical modulation and extended X-ray dips in the short-period transient Swift J1753.5-0127” (Charles et al., MNRAS) “Up and Down the Black Hole Radio/X-Ray Correlation: The 2017 …

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New Cepheid variables in the young open clusters Berkeley 51 and Berkeley 55

Posted on 07/10/2018 by Matthew Allen

M. E. Lohr (Open University), I. Negueruela, H. M. Tabernero (Alicante), J. S. Clark (Open University), F. Lewis (FT/LJMU), P. Roche (FT) As part of a wider investigation of evolved massive stars in Galactic open clusters, we have spectroscopically identified …

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Multiwavelength observations of the black hole transient Swift J1745-26 during the outburst decay

Posted on 02/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

Emrah Kalemci (Sabanci, Turkey), Mehtap Ozbey Arabaci (Ankara, Turkey), Tolga Guver (Istanbul, Turkey), David M. Russell (New York Abu Dhabi), John Tomsick (Berkeley), Joern Wilms (Erlangen-Nurnberg), Georg Weidenspointner (Hamburg, MPI Garching), Erik Kuulkers (ESAC Madrid), Maurizio Falanga (Bern), Tolga Dincer (Sabanci, Turkey), …

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HERschel Observations of Edge-on Spirals (HEROES) II. Tilted-ring modelling of the atomic gas disks

Posted on 02/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

F. Allaert (Gent), G. Gentile (Gent, Brussels), M. Baes, G. De Geyter (Gent), T.M. Hughes (Gent, Valparaiso), F. Lewis (FT, LJMU), S. Bianchi (INAF Firenze), I. De Looze (Gent, Cambridge), J. Fritz (UNAM Mexico), B. W. Holwerda (Leiden), J. Verstappen …

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Events leading up to the June 2015 outburst of V404 Cyg

Posted on 02/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

Bernardini, D.M. Russell (New York University Abu Dhabi), A.W. Shaw (Southampton), F. Lewis (FT, LJMU), P.A. Charles (Southampton), K.I.I. Koljonen (New York University Abu Dhabi), J.P. Lasota (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw), J. Casares (IAC, Tenerife, …

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A “high-hard” outburst of the black hole X-ray binary GS 1354-64

Posted on 02/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

K. I. I. Koljonen, D. M. Russell (NYUAD), J. M. Corral-Santana (Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile), M. Armas Padilla, T. Muñoz-Darias (IAC), F. Lewis (FT/LJMU), M. Coriat (Toulouse), F. E. Bauer (Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile, Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, …

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Multiwavelength monitoring of a very active dwarf nova AX J1549.8−5416 with an unusually high duty cycle

Posted on 02/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

Guobao Zhang, Joseph D. Gelfand, David M. Russell (NYUAD), Fraser Lewis (FT/LJMU), Nicola Masetti (INAF Bologna/Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile), Federico Bernardini (NYUAD), Ileana Andruchow, L. Zibecchi (Universidad Nacional de La Plata Argentina/Instituto de Astrofısica La PlataArgentina) We present the …

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