出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：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.
