@article{10902/28061,
year = {2010},
month = {2},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/28061},
abstract = {We report on the first observational phase of the Liverpool Quasar Lens Monitoring (LQLM) project. This mainly consisted of the optical follow-up of three lensed quasars using the 2 m Liverpool Robotic Telescope. The observational subprogram started in January 2005 and was completed in July 2007. We also describe our photometric approaches (including two pipelines to extract accurate and reliable fluxes of images of lensed quasars), the performance of the telescope when taking modest nightly exposures of lens systems, and the main scientific results from the observed light curves. The LQLM archive and the current status of the project (second phase) are also outlined.},
organization = {The authors are grateful to the organizers (LOC and SOC) of the workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories held in Malaga from 18 to 21 May 2009, who prepared a useful meeting showing current robotic facilities as well as the efforts of several groups in different fields and some ongoing projects. They thank several members of the Liverpool Telescope staff (M. Bode, C. Moss, R. Smith, and I. Steele) for guidance in the preparation of their robotic monitoring project and kind interaction during the last five years. The Liverpool Telescope is operated on the island of La Palma by Liverpool John Moores University in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias with financial support from the UK Science and Technology
Facilities Council. They thank R. Gil-Merino and B. McLeod for different kinds of support during the first stages of the LQLM project. Their LQLM project is being developed in parallel with a similar project at the Maidanak Observatory. They also thank T. Akhunov, B. Artamonov, O. Burkhonov, E. Koptelova, S. Nuritdinov, A. Sergeyev, and A. Zheleznyak for collaboration, discussion and exchange of information on common targets. They use information taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Web site, and they are grateful to the SDSS team for doing that public database. This research has been financially supported by the Spanish Department of
Education and Science Grants AYA2004-08243-C03-02 and AYA2007-67342-C03-02, and University of Cantabria funds.},
publisher = {Hindawi},
publisher = {Advances in Astronomy, 2010, 347935},
title = {Robotic monitoring of gravitationally lensed quasars},
author = {Goicoechea Santamaría, Luis Julián and Shalyapin, Vyacheslav N. and Ullán, Aurora},
}