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{{Short description|Network of robotic telescopes}}

{{Unreferenced|date=October 2009}}

{{More citations needed|date=July 2022}}

'''RoboNet'''-1.0 was a prototype global network of UK-built 2-metre [[robotic telescopestelescope]]s, the largest of their kind in the world, comprising the [[Liverpool Telescope]] on La Palma (Canary Islands), the [[Faulkes Telescope North]] on Maui (Hawaii), and the [[Faulkes Telescope South]] in Australia, managed by a consortium of ten UK universities under the lead of [[Liverpool John Moores University]]. For the technological aims of integrating a global network to act effectively as a single instrument, and maximizing the scientific return by applying the newest developments in [[e-Science]], RoboNet adopted the intelligent-agent architecture devised and maintained by the [[eSTAR]] project]].

With the flexible scheduling and short response time of robotic telescopes being ideal for [[time-___domain astronomy]], RoboNet-1.0 had two major science goals that critically depend on these requirements: the determination of origin and nature of [[gamma-ray bursts]], and the detection of cool [[extra-solar planets]] by means of [[gravitational microlensing]].

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With the official end of RoboNet-1.0 in October 2007, and the earlier acquisition of the two [[Faulkes Telescopes]] by [[Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope|Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network]], the microlensing programme is carried on as RoboNet-II. Starting in 2008, RoboNet-II has been using the expert system for microlensing anomaly detection

that is being provided by the [[Automated Robotic Terrestrial Exoplanet Microlensing Search]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=NASA: Artemis |url=https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/index.html |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=NASA}}</ref> (ARTEMiS). RoboNet-II aims at obtaining a first census of cool terrestrial [[exoplanet]]s.

==Research highlights==

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* [[OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb]] (the most Earth-like planet at the time of its discovery)

* [[OGLE-2005-BLG-169L]]b

* [[OGLE-2006-BLG-109L]]b and OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lc (a pair similar to Jupiter and Saturn in the [[Solar systemSystem]])

* [[OGLE-2007-BLG-368L]]b368Lb a cold Neptune-Mass planet{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}

* [[MOA-2009-BLG-319L]]b a massive planet orbiting an M dwarf

* [[MOA-2009-BLG-387L]]b

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==External links==

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120220152936/http://robonet.lcogt.net/RoboNet RoboNet homepage]

*[http://www.estar.org.uk eSTAR homepage]

*[http://www.artemis-uk.org ARTEMiS homepage]

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*[http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/astronomy University of St Andrews Astronomy Group]

*[http://lcogt.net Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT)]

*[httphttps://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/science/space/realmedia/skyatnight_aug07?size=16x9&bgc=000000&nbram=1&bbram=1 ''The Sky at Night'' episode on RoboNet (August 2007)]

*[http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/moa/ Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics]

*[http://bootes.iaa.es/ Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System (BOOTES) Robotic Telescope Network]