BIBLIOS

Document type
Conference papers

Document subtype
Abstract

Title
The First Year of Operations of the YALO Consortium

Participants in the publication
Charles Baylin (Author)
Darren Depoy (Author)
Rui Agostinho (Author)
Dep. Física
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R. Mendez (Author)
R. Espinoza (Author)

Summary
We report on the first year of operation of the YALO consortium (Yale, AURA, Lisbon, Ohio). YALO operates the Yale 1m telescope located at Cerro Tololo. All observations at YALO are obtained using a two-channel camera built expressly for the telescope. This instrument is capable of simultaneous imaging in one optical (UBVRI) and one near-infrared (JHK) bandpass. Two on-site observers (JE and DG) obtain the observations. Programs are assembled on a daily basis by a queue manager from one of the participating institutions, and e-mailed to the mountain. The constant availability of IR and optical imaging, combined with flexible daily queue management, make this facility ideal for long-term monitoring projects, and for responding to transient events. Observers from the community have access to this facility through NOAO. During the first year of operations, a wide variety of programs were carried out, with particular emphasis on monitoring programs for supernovae, X-ray binaries, and MACHO events. We briefly describe the performance of the telescope and camera, comment on the achievements and difficulties of our observational strategy, and present some selected scientific results which demonstrate the utility of the overall system.

Editor(s)
American Astronomical Society


Event
American Astronomical Society, 195th AAS Meeting

Publication Identifiers

Publisher
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society

Collection
Meeting Abstracts



Document Identifiers
URL - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999AAS...195.8706B