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1 About 2 HTN IV (2008/2009) Call for Proposals Has Closed 3 Meetings 4 Main Sections 5 Participants

About

The HTN Consortium represents a number of major research groups in the field of robotic telescopes. The organisation has three primary aims:

• Interoperability between robotic telescope networks
• Interoperability with the Virtual Observatory (http://www.ivoa.net) for event notification
• Establishment of an e-market for the exchange of telescope time

HTN IV (2008/2009) Call for Proposals Has Closed

The call for proposals is now closed for submissions to make use of the HTN in 2008/2009.

The following proposals were successful.

• Andrew Drake et al. (Caltech): "Follow-up of short timescale optical transients"
• Jenny Patience (Exeter) and Eric Saunders (LCOGT): "Photometric monitoring of the pre-main sequence binaries - a test of disk accretion models"

The following proposal is recommended by the TAC, subject to specific infrastructure requirements being put in place.

• Tim Naylor, Alasdair Allan (Exeter) and Eric Saunders (LCOGT): "Aperiodic variability in classical T Tauri stars"

Between them, these proposals have been allocated 50 hours of scheduled time split between the Faulkes North and Faulkes South telescopes, 10 hours of on-sky time on the Liverpool Telescope and 10 hours of on-sky time on MONET/North. Additionally, 2hrs of target of opportunity override time have been allocated to the Drake proposal.

Meetings

• Hot-wiring the Transient Universe (http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/index.cfm), June 2007, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
  • Talks given at the Meeting (http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/program/index.cfm)
  • Photographs from the Meeting (http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/hotwired/photos/)
• HTN Workshop II, July 2006, Göttingen, Germany
  • Talks given at the Meeting
  • Notes from the Meeting
  • Actions from the Meeting
  • Photographs from the Meeting
• SPIE 2006 (http://spie.org/Conferences/Calls/06/as/conferences/index.cfm?fuseaction=AS06), May 2006, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
• VOEvent Workshop II (http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VoeventWorkshop2), December 2005, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
• HTN Workshop, July 2005, Exeter, United Kingdom
  • Talks given at the Meeting
  • Notes from the Meeting
  • Actions from the Meeting
  • Workshop Proceedings
• VOEvent Workshop (http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/VoeventWorkshop), April 2005, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Main Sections

• Protocols
• Transport Mechanisms
  • SOAP Standard
  • FTP Standard
  • Vanilla TCP Standard
• RTML
  • RTML Standard (http://monet.uni-sw.gwdg.de/twiki/bin/view/RTML/WebHome)
  • Phase 0 Requests
• eMarkets
  • CORE (http://alpha.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~hessman/CORE/)
• Agent Technology
  • What are Agents?
  • Why are Agents useful?
  • Agent architectures
• Robotic Telescopes
• Events & Transients
  • The IVOA (http://www.ivoa.net/) VOEvent (http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaVOEvent) Standard
  • Astro::VO::VOEvent & Astro::GCN (http://voevent.sourceforge.net/) Perl Modules
  • The GCN (http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/) Project

Participants

The HTN Consortium is formed from a loose network of projects:

• The eSTAR Project
• The Robonet-1.0 Consortium
• Los Alamos Thinking Telescope Project (http://www.thinkingtelescopes.lanl.gov/)
  • RAPid Telescope for Optical Response (RAPTOR )
  • Telescope ALert Operations Network System (TALONS).
• The MONET Project
• NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/) SGM Project
• Las Cumbres Observatory (http://www.lcogt.net/) Global Telescope (LCOGT)
• The Super-WASP Project
• Joint Astronomy Centre, Hawaii (JACH)
• The ROTSE Project
• The STELLA Project
• EUDOXOS network
• The Pilot Small Telescope Network (PSTN)
• The TAOS Project
• The PROMPT Project