Policies and Guidelines

Policies and Guidelines

The following pages cover several policies and guidelines developed for our users and and the LBTO facility use.

Guidelines:

• Guidelines for Operating the Facility – These include weather and safety restrictions.
• Guidelines for Remote Observing Zoom Etiquette – These include guidelines to help ensure smooth, efficient, and safe remote operations and communication.

Policies:

• LBTO Data Dissemination Policy
• LBTO Time Domain Observations (TDOs) Policy
• LBTO Remote Observing Policy

Publishing science based on LBTO data

The LBTO requests that publications based on data obtained at the LBT include the following statement as a footnote to the title or as a paragraph at the end of the paper:

The LBT is an international collaboration among institutions in the United States, Italy and Germany. LBT Corporation Members are: The University of Arizona on behalf of the Arizona Board of Regents; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy; LBT Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Germany, representing the Max-Planck Society, The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, and Heidelberg University; The Ohio State University, representing OSU, University of Notre Dame, University of Minnesota and University of Virginia. Observations have benefited from the use of ALTA Center (alta.arcetri.inaf.it) forecasts performed with the Astro-Meso-Nh model. Initialization data of the ALTA automatic forecast system come from the General Circulation Model (HRES) of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts.

Authors may re-order the list of partners as appropriate to emphasize their primary affiliation, but please list all partners as above. Specific references for each instrument can be found on the individual instrument pages.