Speaker
Description
Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) has been a success story of Nordic
collaboration in astronomy. Multi-messenger and
time-domain astronomy have been popular amongst our users. Examples
being nightly
monitoring of gravitational lens for two years; transient followups
from sky surveys such as ZTF, Gaia, SVOM etc. and monitoring of
TeV sources, jointly with MAGIC.
Recently NOT has been the most productive facility
at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), based on the
refereed publications, outperforming
the bigger facilities such as TNG, GTC and ING.
NOT is also an important training facility for young researchers.
The ongoing Johannes Andersen Student Programme
has trained more than 120 young researchers since 1990.
We present the current status of NOT with a brief historic perspective.