The Astronomical Event Observatory Network on SOAR: Implementation and First Results
Abstract
The Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON) is a collaboration among NSF's NOIRLab, Las Cumbres Observatory, the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) 4.1m Telescope, and the international Gemini Observatory 8.4m telescopes. The goal is to develop an ecosystem of facilities to provide rapid and efficient follow-up observations of alerts created from modern astronomical surveys, with particular emphasis on the new windows into time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy brought about by the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory 8.4m Simonyi Survey Telescope on Cerro Pachón, Chile.
- Publication:
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The NOIRLab Mirror
- Pub Date:
- June 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020Mirro...1...52B