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Acknowledgements

All papers published as a result of LT observations should contain the following in the acknowledgements:

The Liverpool Telescope is operated on the island of La Palma by Liverpool John Moores University in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias with financial support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council.

Or as a footnote to the title:

Based on observations made with the Liverpool Telescope operated on the island of La Palma by Liverpool John Moores University in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias with financial support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council.

We would also appreciate a citation to the following paper:

The Liverpool Telescope: performance and first results
Steele, Iain A., Smith, Robert J., Rees, Paul C., et al.
Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Oschmann, Jacobus M., Jr., Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 5489, pp. 679-692 (2004)
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Instruments

If you have used the following instruments, and especially their data pipeline products, then please reference the papers below:

FRODOSpec

A fully automated data reduction pipeline for the FRODOSpec integral field spectrograph
Barnsley, R. M., Smith, R. J., Steele, I. A.
Astronomische Nachrichten, v333, p101, 2012
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IO:I

IO:I, a near-infrared camera for the Liverpool Telescope
R.M. Barnsley, H.E. Jermak, I.A. Steele, R.J. Smith, S.D. Bates, C.J. Mottram
J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst. 2(1), 015002 (Mar 04, 2016)
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SPRAT

SPRAT: Spectrograph for the Rapid Acquisition of Transients
Piascik, A. S.; Steele, Iain A.; Bates, Stuart D.; Mottram, Christopher J.; Smith, R. J.; Barnsley, R. M.; Bolton, B.
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9147, id. 91478H 16 pp. (2014)
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RISE

RISE: a fast-readout imager for exoplanet transit timing
Steele, I. A.; Bates, S. D.; Gibson, N.; Keenan, F.; Meaburn, J.; Mottram, C. J.; Pollacco, D.; Todd, I.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II. Edited by McLean, Ian S.; Casali, Mark M.
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7014, article id. 70146J, 12 pp. (2008).

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RINGO3

RINGO3: a multi-colour fast response polarimeter
Arnold, D. M.; Steele, I. A.; Bates, S. D.; Mottram, C. J.; Smith, R. J.
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8446, article id. 84462J, 8 pp. (2012)
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