Rapid, flexible, programmable access to multi-wavelength telescope facilities

AEON+ is a collaboration between astronomical telescopes to enable more responsive, flexible modes of observations that are essential for time domain astrophysics.

Alerts of new, often transient, survey discoveries can only be properly characterized by follow-up observations obtained rapidly in response. This requires a paradigm shift in the operations of most astronomical telescope facilities towards two key capabilities:

• Requests for observations submitted programmatically
• Flexible modes of executing the requested observations

Building on the success of the original AEON Collaboration between Las Cumbres Observatory, the NSF's Optical/Infrared Laboratory and the SOAR 4.1m and Gemini 8m telescopes, the AEON+ program is expanding these capabilities to a broader range of facilities, and wavelengths.