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Autori principali: Tosi, Silvia, Marini, Ester, Cusano, Felice, Rossi, Andrea, Speziali, Roberto, Carini, Roberta
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24040
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author Tosi, Silvia
Marini, Ester
Cusano, Felice
Rossi, Andrea
Speziali, Roberto
Carini, Roberta
author_facet Tosi, Silvia
Marini, Ester
Cusano, Felice
Rossi, Andrea
Speziali, Roberto
Carini, Roberta
contents The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is a world-leading astronomical observatory, where the italian partnership has played an important role in increasing the telescope's productivity, both through an optimized observing strategy and through peer-reviewed publications that are well recognized by the international astronomical community. This manuscript provides an updated overview of the active and past instruments at LBT, together with the key usage statistics. In particular, we analyze the operational performance recorded in the LBT Italia night logs during INAF's observing time and assess the scientific impact of each instrument. Between 2014 and 2025 LBT Italia produced an average of 14 referred publication per year, based on an annual average of 311 hours of on-sky time. This corresponds to approximately 2.2 nights of telescope time per publication. The results of this analysis are placed in an international context to evaluate the competitiveness of LBT, and we outline future perspective for scientific exploitation.
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spellingShingle LBT Italia: Current Achievements and Future Directions
Tosi, Silvia
Marini, Ester
Cusano, Felice
Rossi, Andrea
Speziali, Roberto
Carini, Roberta
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is a world-leading astronomical observatory, where the italian partnership has played an important role in increasing the telescope's productivity, both through an optimized observing strategy and through peer-reviewed publications that are well recognized by the international astronomical community. This manuscript provides an updated overview of the active and past instruments at LBT, together with the key usage statistics. In particular, we analyze the operational performance recorded in the LBT Italia night logs during INAF's observing time and assess the scientific impact of each instrument. Between 2014 and 2025 LBT Italia produced an average of 14 referred publication per year, based on an annual average of 311 hours of on-sky time. This corresponds to approximately 2.2 nights of telescope time per publication. The results of this analysis are placed in an international context to evaluate the competitiveness of LBT, and we outline future perspective for scientific exploitation.
title LBT Italia: Current Achievements and Future Directions
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24040