Telescope

The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive

Frank J. Masci, Russ R. Laher, B. Rusholme, D. L. Shupe, Steven L. Groom, J. Surace, Edward Jackson, S. Monkewitz, R. Beck, David Flynn, Scott Terek, Walter Landry, Eugean Hacopians, Vandana Desai, Justin Howell, T. Y. Brooke, D. Imel, Stefanie Wachter, Quanzhi Ye, Hsing Wen Lin, S. B. Cenko, Virginia Cunningham, Umaa Rebbapragada, Brian Bue, Adam A. Miller, A. Mahabal, Eric C. Bellm, Maria T. Patterson, Mario Jurić, V. Z. Golkhou, E. O. Ofek, Richard Walters, M. J. Graham, M. M. Kasliwal, Richard Dekany, Thomas Kupfer, Kevin B. Burdge, Christopher B. Cannella, Tom A. Barlow, Angela Van Sistine, M. Giomi, C. Fremling, N. Blagorodnova, D. Levitan, Reed Riddle, Roger M. Smith, G. Hélou, Thomas A. Prince, S. R. Kulkarni

Citations: 1173 • 2018

THE FIVE-HUNDRED-METER APERTURE SPHERICAL RADIO TELESCOPE (FAST) PROJECT

Citations: 843 • 2011

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large‐Area Synoptic Surveys

Citations: 410 • 2007

Hectospec, the MMT’s 300 Optical Fiber‐Fed Spectrograph

Daniel G. Fabricant, Robert Fata, John Roll, Edward Hertz, Nelson Caldwell, Thomas Gauron, John C. Geary, B. A. McLeod, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Joseph Zajac, Michael J. Kurtz, Jack Barberis, Henry Bergner, Warren R. Brown, Maureen A. Conroy, Roger Eng, Margaret J. Geller, Richard E. Goddard, M. Honsa, Mark Mueller, Mark Ordway, S. Tokarz, D. Woods, William F. Wyatt, Harland W. Epps, Ian Dell’Antonio

Citations: 382 • 2005

The Liverpool Telescope: performance and first results

I. A. Steele, R. J. Smith, Paul Rees, Ian P. Baker, Stuart Bates, M. F. Bode, Mark Bowman, Dave Carter, J. Etherton, Martyn J. Ford, S. N. Fraser, A. Gomboc, Robert D. J. Lett, Anthony G. Mansfield, Jonathon M. Marchant, Gustavo A. Medrano‐Cerda, Christopher J. Mottram, D. Raback, A. B. Scott, M. D. Tomlinson, R. Zamanov

Citations: 375 • 2004

The Anglo-Australian Observatory 2dF facility

Ian J. Lewis, Richard D. Cannon, Keith Taylor, Karl Glazebrook, J. A. Bailey, I. K. Baldry, J. R. Barton, Terry Bridges, Gavin Dalton, Tony J. Farrell, Peter Gray, Annette Lankshear, Chris McCowage, Ian R. Parry, R. M. Sharples, Keith Shortridge, Greg Smith, J. Stevenson, J. O. Straede, Lew Waller, John D. Whittard, Julianne K. Wilcox, Kevin Willis

Citations: 350 • 2002

Five hundred meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST)

Rendong Nan

Citations: 308 • 2006

The Zwicky Transient Facility: Observing System

Citations: 294 • 2020

The Automated Palomar 60 Inch Telescope

S. B. Cenko, D. B. Fox, Dae‐Sik Moon, Fiona Harrison, S. R. Kulkarni, John Henning, Christian Dani Guzmán, Marco Bonati, Roger M. Smith, R. Thicksten, Michael W. Doyle, Hal L. Petrie, A. Gal‐Yam, Alicia Soderberg, Nathaniel L. Anagnostou, A. C. Laity

Citations: 245 • 2006

The SED Machine: A Robotic Spectrograph for Fast Transient Classification

Citations: 239 • 2018

Real-time processing of the imaging data from the network of Las Cumbres Observatory Telescopes using BANZAI

Citations: 236 • 2018

The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design

Amir Aghamousa, Steve Ahlen, Shadab Alam, Carlos Allende Prieto, James Annis, S. Bailey, Christophe Balland, O. Ballester, C. Baltay, L. Beaufore, C. Bebek, Timothy C. Beers, Eric F. Bell, José Luis Bernal, Robert Besuner, Florian Beutler, Chris Blake, Hannes Bleuler, Michael Blomqvist, Robert Blum, A. Bolton, César Briceño, David J. Brooks, Joel R. Brownstein, E. Buckley‐Geer, A. Burden, E. Burtin, Nicolás G. Busca, R. N. Cahn, Yan-Chuan Cai, L. Cardiel-Sas, R. G. Carlberg, Pierre-Henri Carton, R. Casas, F. J. Castander, Jorge L. Cervantes–Cota, T. Claybaugh, Madeline Close, Carl T. Coker, Shaun Cole, Johan Comparat, Andrew P. Cooper, M.-C. Cousinou, Martín Crocce, Jean-Gabriel Cuby, Daniel P. Cunningham, T. M. Davis, Kyle S. Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Juan de Vicente, Timothée Delubac, Mark Derwent, Arjun Dey, Govinda Dhungana, Zhejie Ding, P. Doel, Yutong T. Duan, Anne Ealet, Jerry Edelstein, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Ann Elliott, S. Escoffier, Matthew Evatt, Parker Fagrelius, Xiaohui Fan, Kevin Fanning, Arya Farahi, Jay Farihi, Ginevra Favole, Feng Yu, Enrique Fernandez, Joseph Findlay, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Michael J. Fitzpatrick, B. Flaugher, Samuel Flender, Andreu Font-Ribera, J. E. Forero-Romero, Pablo Fosalba, Carlos S. Frenk, Michele Fumagalli, Boris Gaensicke, Giuseppe Gallo, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztañaga, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, Terry Gerard, Irena Gershkovich, Tommaso Giannantonio, Denis Gillet, Guillermo Gonzalez-De-Rivera, Violeta González-Pérez, Shelby Gott, Or Graur, G. Gutiérrez, Julien Guy

Citations: 234 • 2016

The ROTSE‐III Robotic Telescope System

C. Akerlof, R. Kehoe, Timothy A. McKay, E. S. Rykoff, D. A. Smith, D. E. Casperson, K. McGowan, W. T. Vestrand, P. R. Woźniak, J. Wren, M. C. B. Ashley, Michael A. Phillips, S. L. Marshall, Harland W. Epps, Jan Schier

Citations: 204 • 2003

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): A Small Robotic Telescope for Large-Area Synoptic Surveys

Richard W. Pogge, D. L. DePoy, J. L. Marshall, K. Z. Stanek, S. Poindexter, Robert J. Siverd, Mark Trueblood, Patricia Trueblood

Citations: 197 • 2013

Ultra Low Surface Brightness Imaging with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array

Roberto Abraham, Pieter van Dokkum

Citations: 181 • 2016

Multi-colour optical monitoring of eight red blazars

Minfeng Gu, Chung‐Uk Lee, Soojong Pak, Hong-Suh Yim, A. Fletcher

Citations: 180 • 2006

The Robotic Multiobject Focal Plane System of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

J. Silber, Parker Fagrelius, Kevin Fanning, M. Schubnell, J. Aguilar, S. P. Ahlen, Jon Ameel, O. Ballester, C. Baltay, C. Bebek, D. Beard, Robert Besuner, L. Cardiel, R. Casas, F. J. Castander, T. Claybaugh, C. A. Dobson, Yutong Duan, Psm Dunlop, Jerry Edelstein, W. Emmet, Ann Elliott, Matthew Evatt, Irena Gershkovich, J. Guy, Stu Harris, Henry Heetderks, Ian Heetderks, K. Honscheid, J. M. Illa, Patrick Jelinsky, Sharon R. Jelinsky, Jorge Jiménez, Armin Karcher, S. Kent, D. Kirkby, Jean‐Paul Kneib, Andrew Lambert, M. Lampton, Daniela Leitner, M. E. Levi, Jeremy McCauley, Aaron Meisner, Timothy N. Miller, R. Miquel, Juliá Mundet, Claire Poppett, D. Rabinowitz, K. Reil, David Roman, David J. Schlegel, S. Serrano, William Van Shourt, David Sprayberry, G. Tarlé, Suk Sien Tie, Curtis Weaverdyck, Kai Zhang, M. Azzaro, S. Bailey, S. Becerril, Tami Blackwell, Mohamed Bouri, D. Brooks, E. Buckley‐Geer, José Peñate Castro, Mark Derwent, Arjun Dey, G. Dhungana, P. Doel, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Nasib Fahim, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, G. Gutiérrez, Philipp Hörler, R. Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Luzius Kronig, Martin Landriau, L. Le Guillou, Paul Martini, John Moustakas, N. Palanque‐Delabrouille, Xiyan Peng, Will J. Percival, Francisco Prada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Guillermo Glez-de-Rivera, E. Sánchez, Justo Sánchez, R. M. Sharples, M. Soares-Santos, Edward F. Schlafly, Benjamin A. Weaver, Zhimin Zhou, Yaling Zhu, Hu Zou

Citations: 175 • 2022

TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope)

Emmanuël Jehin, M. Gillon, Jean Manfroid, Damien Hutsemékers, Pierre Magain

Citations: 146 • 2011

TRAPPIST: a robotic telescope dedicated to the study of planetary systems

M. Gillon, Emmanuël Jehin, Pierre Magain, V. Chantry, D. Hutsemékers, Jean Manfroid, D. Queloz, S. Udry

Citations: 138 • 2011

A New End-effector for On-orbit Assembly of a Large Reflector

Shin-Ichiro NISHIDA, Tsuneo Yoshikawa

Citations: 132 • 2006